In short, almost none of it can be legally scanned *and distributed*.
And in any case, he doesn't actually want scans, even if he doesn't know that. What he wants is music that has been digitally encoded in a free and open standard, so that there are readers the can interepret and print it.
I'm not quite sure how much higher they can go (without pointless tricks like splitting the blades in half and calling it "10 bladed").
"With our new nanotechnology we have been able to create a blade with billions of discrete cutting components per millimeter of blade! Batteries? We don't need no stinking batteries. Our blades are internally powered by atomic quantum energy. But wait, there's more, they contain. ..carbon!; to combine light weight with strength. Let's see the competition match technology like that. And they're, ummmmmmmmm, organic. Yeah, that's the ticket, but you vegetarians will be pleased to learn that they contain no meat."
Tell it to the investors who withdraw funding when demand goes up and they need to put more fabs online to meet it. Demand is up, but margins are down. So is the stock price. There goes the money to build new fabs.
It's all about capitalization. Not being able to meet the captital requirements of an excess of success is the second most common cause of business failure. Outright stupidity only comes in at number three.
Beer and yeast infections are two sides of the same coin, too.
We are discussing the uses of a tool. Beer is beer. Beer injested for safe water and beer injested to get drunk are two sides of the same coin. Encryption to protect your personal documents and encryption to protect the contents of a CD are two sides of the same coin.
DRM protects media companies against you.
Because that's the way that media companies use it. You may well use it to protect yourself against media companies. The wacko down the street may use a hammer to kill me. I may use a hammer to build a secure house to protect myself from him. You cannot seperate the two functions of a hammer, which is simply a tool for delivering a concentrated impact.
You're implying that encryption is B-A-D.
No, I am stating outright that encryption is neutral. Only the uses to which it is put are B-A-D or G-O-O-D.
Funny. That sounds an awful lot like a CompSci degree.
Hey, at least he's responding on that level. Now I'm no huge fan of what passes for computer science these days, but most of the people here seem to be offering suggestions to some kid who's "learned" Java off the web.
Now I actually have no idea what this guy actually knows; what he's actually been doing; or where he actually thinks he wants to go, so I'll offer the best completely generic advice I can muster up at the moment:
To go up to the next level; go down one level below where you've been before.
Ultimately to reach the top level, see just how far down the rabbit hole goes. I can't, however, guarantee that this will leave you employable, so you might just want to take the blue pill. I think the kids are calling it "C#" these days.
Language is not composed of words. It is composed of idiomatic phrases (idiomatic phrases do not mean what the words mean) only understandable in context. True automatic translation is not possible.
As an example, I was once called upon to translate the simple advertising slogan "Si Misura" from Italian to English. This had already been translated as "Made to Measure."
Quick, without thinking, tell me what the product was?
If you're a native English speaker you probably think of a suit or dress. Maybe a kitchen cabinet. Some tool with human ergonomic requirements.
The product was a liquid chemical compound, so I translated it into the correct English idiom for such; "Custom Blended."
And with that simple example we haven't even touched on issues of syntax yet; or more complicated issues of social usage (say formal vs. informal forms).
KFG
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I need a CD that sticks itself in the slot.
And I supose you're going to be fussy about which slot, ain'cha?
"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy....
Library of Congress George Washington / painted by G. Stuart ; engraved by H.S. Sadd, N.Y. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will ofone country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."
Is ECA a governmental organization or something? Looks lik a private organization to me. This story isn't really political and shouldn't be in the politics section.
I think you should probably look up the definition of "democracy." Throw in "lobbyist" while you're at it.
Inserting something like "Asians" in the blank just drives the point home even further, because Japanese, Koreans, Chinese and Mongols (nevermind Persians) are all quite readily distinguishable from each other, although most "westerners" can't do it.
But don't we almost always get a computer to solve a problem that's not strictly a mathematical one using "hacks that only work in restricted conditions"?
Out of the mouths of . . .
Our spell-checkers in our word processors don't actually know anything about the rules of a language, phonics, etc. They just do lookups from a dictionary. If a word's not listed, it has no idea if it's spelled properly or not . ..
Because the standard spelling of a word is simply and precisely mathematically definable, whereas language is not. That is the parent poster's point. We call them computers for a reason. Deep in their little rocky brains all they can do is compute by shoving "beads" around.
Until we figure out how the human brain recognizes faces as individuals, we can't expect anything *but* a clever hack for a computer to do the same. And truthfully, I suspect the human brain takes many things into account to do a "recognition" on a person. How often do you see somebody in the store that you're pretty sure you know from a previous job, school, etc. but you're not quite sure?
In other words, face recognition doesn't actually work. Even the human brain is horribly inaccurate at recognizing faces. Anyone working in law enforcement in any capacity is well aware of this. That's why we now use fingerprints and DNA to more precisely define an individual . . . or electronically tag them.
I used to work in this field, but had the advantage of the full cooperation of the subject in desiring to be recognized and the only actual solution is to uniquely tag each one with something that can be read from a distance and looked up in a database. Assign each one a "word."
Why do you think racing cars have numbers painted on them?
More correct and even cooler, more than -five- billion years old. ..
I know it and you know it. Joni knows it too; and if you bring up the subject she mutters something about being a licensed poet or something like that as she walks away.
So a supernova of 20 suns equivalent managed to explode and leave behind thousands of sun-like stars?
No, it managed to leave behind heavy elements. Ya know, iron, uranium, shit like that. The stuff the Earth is made of. We are stardust. We are billion year old carbon.
And, of course (everybody sing):
Oh dear, where can the matter be, when it's converted to energy. . .
Mass and matter are not entirely synonymous and the relevant closed system in this instance is the universe.
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If published before 1923. . .
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Like Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
In short, almost none of it can be legally scanned *and distributed*.
And in any case, he doesn't actually want scans, even if he doesn't know that. What he wants is music that has been digitally encoded in a free and open standard, so that there are readers the can interepret and print it.
The basically means ABC and Lilypond files:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/ABC-FAQ.htm
http://lilypond.org/web/
KFG
Um, what?
Horticulture.
KFG
Can't blame the investors for a company's failure to supply customers.
Yes, you can. Why? Because they are often the cause.
Why do you think they call it "capitalism"?
KFG
I'm not quite sure how much higher they can go (without pointless tricks like splitting the blades in half and calling it "10 bladed").
.carbon!; to combine light weight with strength. Let's see the competition match technology like that. And they're, ummmmmmmmm, organic. Yeah, that's the ticket, but you vegetarians will be pleased to learn that they contain no meat."
"With our new nanotechnology we have been able to create a blade with billions of discrete cutting components per millimeter of blade! Batteries? We don't need no stinking batteries. Our blades are internally powered by atomic quantum energy. But wait, there's more, they contain. .
KFG
Tell it to the investors who withdraw funding when demand goes up and they need to put more fabs online to meet it. Demand is up, but margins are down. So is the stock price. There goes the money to build new fabs.
It's all about capitalization. Not being able to meet the captital requirements of an excess of success is the second most common cause of business failure. Outright stupidity only comes in at number three.
KFG
Beer and yeast infections are two sides of the same coin, too.
We are discussing the uses of a tool. Beer is beer. Beer injested for safe water and beer injested to get drunk are two sides of the same coin. Encryption to protect your personal documents and encryption to protect the contents of a CD are two sides of the same coin.
DRM protects media companies against you.
Because that's the way that media companies use it. You may well use it to protect yourself against media companies. The wacko down the street may use a hammer to kill me. I may use a hammer to build a secure house to protect myself from him. You cannot seperate the two functions of a hammer, which is simply a tool for delivering a concentrated impact.
You're implying that encryption is B-A-D.
No, I am stating outright that encryption is neutral. Only the uses to which it is put are B-A-D or G-O-O-D.
Ah, what's the point explaining?
You're an idiot.
In the morning I'll be sober.
KFG
. . .the idiom will cease to mean what you want it to if you change the component words.
Exactly.
True automatic translation will be possible when we have true artificial intelligence.
What is the English word that equals the Greek word "logos"?
KFG
Funny. That sounds an awful lot like a CompSci degree.
Hey, at least he's responding on that level. Now I'm no huge fan of what passes for computer science these days, but most of the people here seem to be offering suggestions to some kid who's "learned" Java off the web.
Now I actually have no idea what this guy actually knows; what he's actually been doing; or where he actually thinks he wants to go, so I'll offer the best completely generic advice I can muster up at the moment:
To go up to the next level; go down one level below where you've been before.
Ultimately to reach the top level, see just how far down the rabbit hole goes. I can't, however, guarantee that this will leave you employable, so you might just want to take the blue pill. I think the kids are calling it "C#" these days.
KFG
Language is not composed of words. It is composed of idiomatic phrases (idiomatic phrases do not mean what the words mean) only understandable in context. True automatic translation is not possible.
As an example, I was once called upon to translate the simple advertising slogan "Si Misura" from Italian to English. This had already been translated as "Made to Measure."
Quick, without thinking, tell me what the product was?
If you're a native English speaker you probably think of a suit or dress. Maybe a kitchen cabinet. Some tool with human ergonomic requirements.
The product was a liquid chemical compound, so I translated it into the correct English idiom for such; "Custom Blended."
And with that simple example we haven't even touched on issues of syntax yet; or more complicated issues of social usage (say formal vs. informal forms).
KFG
I need a CD that sticks itself in the slot.
And I supose you're going to be fussy about which slot, ain'cha?
KFG
"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy....
Library of Congress
George Washington / painted by G. Stuart ; engraved by H.S. Sadd, N.Y.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will ofone country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."
-George Washington
They're two sides of the same coin
Bingo!
KFG
Is ECA a governmental organization or something? Looks lik a private organization to me. This story isn't really political and shouldn't be in the politics section.
I think you should probably look up the definition of "democracy." Throw in "lobbyist" while you're at it.
KFG
User controlled DRM is not a problem at all, in fact it is a very powerfulsecurity tool.
If you make dynamite that doesn't blow up you eliminate its usefulness for saving lives.
the problem is when you have to turn over the keys to your kingdom to microsoft, apple, the RIAA, etc.
The problem is in the definition of whose kingdom it is.
KFG
Admins have access to everything. Or at least they should have access to virtually everything.
The next time you wish to pass a note to your girlfriend in the conference room just go up and write it on the whiteboard.
KFG
There's no reason why a company, new, mature, huge, or small shouldn't be able to institute a similar policy in terms of access.
It's called "DRM," which is why it's not only not going away, but will eventually be implimented in "free" systems such as BSD and Linux.
KFG
Would you be upset if your alergist (doctor) had access to your blood work?
Continuously, for whatever purposes he chose to make of them? Damn straight I would.
KFG
Humans seem to have no problem with it. . .
Those (insert ethnic group here) all look alike.
Inserting something like "Asians" in the blank just drives the point home even further, because Japanese, Koreans, Chinese and Mongols (nevermind Persians) are all quite readily distinguishable from each other, although most "westerners" can't do it.
KFG
But don't we almost always get a computer to solve a problem that's not strictly a mathematical one using "hacks that only work in restricted conditions"?
.
Out of the mouths of . . .
Our spell-checkers in our word processors don't actually know anything about the rules of a language, phonics, etc. They just do lookups from a dictionary. If a word's not listed, it has no idea if it's spelled properly or not . .
Because the standard spelling of a word is simply and precisely mathematically definable, whereas language is not. That is the parent poster's point. We call them computers for a reason. Deep in their little rocky brains all they can do is compute by shoving "beads" around.
Until we figure out how the human brain recognizes faces as individuals, we can't expect anything *but* a clever hack for a computer to do the same. And truthfully, I suspect the human brain takes many things into account to do a "recognition" on a person. How often do you see somebody in the store that you're pretty sure you know from a previous job, school, etc. but you're not quite sure?
In other words, face recognition doesn't actually work. Even the human brain is horribly inaccurate at recognizing faces. Anyone working in law enforcement in any capacity is well aware of this. That's why we now use fingerprints and DNA to more precisely define an individual . . . or electronically tag them.
I used to work in this field, but had the advantage of the full cooperation of the subject in desiring to be recognized and the only actual solution is to uniquely tag each one with something that can be read from a distance and looked up in a database. Assign each one a "word."
Why do you think racing cars have numbers painted on them?
KFG
Of course it exists. . .
In the same manner that lie detectors exist.
KFG
They've already won the battle. . .
Another such victory and we are lost.
KFG
And, should a salesman do something of that magnitude, you can retaliate much better.
Say "No!"
KFG
On the other hand, if I was the target of this kind of marketing ploy, I might feel like I had a well-connected, well-financed stalker.
They're called "salesmen."
KFG
More correct and even cooler, more than -five- billion years old. . .
I know it and you know it. Joni knows it too; and if you bring up the subject she mutters something about being a licensed poet or something like that as she walks away.
KFG
So a supernova of 20 suns equivalent managed to explode and leave behind thousands of sun-like stars?
No, it managed to leave behind heavy elements. Ya know, iron, uranium, shit like that. The stuff the Earth is made of. We are stardust. We are billion year old carbon.
And, of course (everybody sing):
Oh dear, where can the matter be, when it's converted to energy. . .
Mass and matter are not entirely synonymous and the relevant closed system in this instance is the universe.
KFG