Sure. Try This keyboard compare Java applet. Type in any real-world piece of text and compare how far your fingers would go, how many times you use the same finger/hand, and how many strokes are done on each row. You may be surprised.
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There's a discussion at Kuro5hin about this article, too. In particular, you might want to read these comments by the author of the article at the Register.
Right - and the story clearly says "Pioneer 6". Pioneer 10 is over 3 billion miles outside the solar system, while Pioneer 6 is orbiting the Sun and was meant to study solar wind, cosmic rays and the Sun's magnetic field.
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Except those who bought a brand-spankin' new video card six months after the game shipped and realized that this bootable CD has no drivers for it.
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Hmmm. I use Kaffe as my Java VM for Konqueror and I haven't had any problems yet. I just dl'ed the latest version, did a./configure --prefix=/usr/local, make, make install, and told Konq to autodetect Java. And exactly that it did.
The "previous URL" bug is a problem between Konqueror and HTTP/1.0-compliant proxies such as Junkbuster. I was having the same problem at first, but disabling Konqueror's use of Junkbuster fixed it. Doesn't bother me much, as I only lose the ad blocking.
Some shows are preceded with "the following program is sponsored in part by...", but not all of them. There are no pledge drives. The majority of the programming is Canadian content, natch. CBC stole the show from NBC during the Olympics in some places because CBC was actually carrying live coverage. That, and CBC generally has a reputation of having sports broadcasters who really know what they're talking about. I watch extremely little TV myself, but when I do it's almost always CBC (Hockey Night in Canada or the Royal Canadian Air Farce).
Who's holding the gun to your head and demanding that you release everything under the GPL? If you write a program, the license is your choice. You can choose GPL, BSD, Public Domain, or you can make up something that would give Microsoft and Adobe all sorts of ideas.
Have a problem with the viral nature of the GPL? Tough. You didn't have to use that code from a GPLed program. You have a choice: Take the easy route and use code that's already there to do something your program needs to do, and end up having to release under the GPL, or take the effort and write the damn function yourself, and choose your own license. You can't have it both ways.
This press release recently got trumpeted on the Vorbis mailing list. Scroll down to "New Encoding and Decoding Format Available" for the part relevant to Vorbis.
I'm from Saskatchewan, and we've had broadband here for years. It seems that Sasktel went crazy-funky a number of years ago and laid fiber lines all over the place. Not many high-capacity fiber pipes except to major cities like Saskatoon and Regina, but mostly smaller fiber lines just going all over the place. In fact, Sasktel claims we were the first place in North America to get ADSL. I makes me wonder whenever I think of that and I hear about people in the States who still don't have broadband in cities twice as large as Saskatoon (my hometown). Ah, well. Back to surfing with cable (uncapped, natch).
On a semi-offtopic note...
A friend of mine was telling me about this man who moved into her hometown (small farming town, the armpit of Saskatchewan, basically) and the company he worked for paid to have a dedicated T1 laid to his doorstep. We could only imagine the cost of it.
You, with a card that does 60 fps now will have to upgrade when the next gen of games does only 20 on your vid card. I, with my 200fps card will enjoy the next gen at 60fps just fine, thank you.
having to blow tons of money by putting these SDMI ASICs in their portable devices.
In what way does the recording industry have hardware companies by the balls in that they can dictate things like SDMI into their hardware? Why can't the hardware companies just say "This SDMI scheme of yours really sucks, so we're not putting it in our hardware." And if the hardware companies started the design process with it being an unproven protection scheme, and it was proven flawed at a point in the design process where it would be too expensive to redesign the hardware, then that's their problem. They took a risk, and lost.
Exactly. An EULA for a piece of software is a unilaterally negotiated agreement that in most cases can't be even read before the purchase becomes irrevocable. The local Staples where I live has a piece of paper on the side of the software shelves that says that due to Canadian copyright laws, returns on opened software are impossible. What I'd like to see from this is that such EULAs at least ordered to be in plain sight on the outside of the box, but I'd mush prefer that software companies are told that they can't take such rights as reverse engineering away from us. Giving UCITA a big kick in the balls would be a great thing, too.
Also on the subject of EULAs, there's a good article here.
Artificial Stupidity was perfected in the enemy behavior code of the Tomb Raider games. I believe it was also partially based on the CPU code the earlier versions of EA's NHL series.
Probably. But that doesn't mean it had to reach 25000mph to leave Earth. If something has no method of self-propulsion along the way, then it must reach "escape velocity" to leave earth. But with propulsion, you can leave earth without exceeding 10mph.
A bullet might need to be fired at escape velocity to leave, but something being pushed all the way up doesn't.
There are, however, plenty of speakers out there that will try a lot harder to render the edges of that 15K square wave.
And assuming these speakers are meant for people to hear the output from, they're wasting their time and effort. It's absolutely true that speakers can't ever render a perfect square wave because the components inside act like a mechanical lowpass filter. But to human ears, it doesn't matter. What the mechanical lowpass filter has messed with isn't in our range of hearing. The output is no longer square, but it's still periodic at 15kHz. We still hear the 15khZ fundamental, and everything else doesn't exist according to our ears.
Oversampling pads the signal with zeros between the samples in order to approximate impulse sampling more closely. The result is that less of the noise power falls within the range of the output lowpass filter than with flat-top sampling and the SNR goes up a bit.
What probably more important os that there' no scientific evidence that people can hear frequencies above 15-16kHz in the presence of other sounds. That's why so many MP3 encoders lowpass filter at 16kHz when encoding at 128kbps; why include those frequencies if they're below the masking threshold?
No, I can't. Sure the input signal has a bunch of odd harmonics with a fundamental of 22kHz, but they're well beyond the range of human hearing. So while the input was a square, it might as well have been sine.
Current SACDs aren't backwards compatible. future ones will using two layers: the lower layer will contain the DSD data, and a normal CD player's layer will pass through that to read the CD layer above.
It appears they're using a dual layer method for backwards compatibility. The details about copy protection methods are vague, but they do mention visible and invisible watermarks aimed against both pirates and counterfeiters. But I can't seem to find a decent explanation of how the encoding DSD encoding scheme works.
Gnutella isn't as popular because it wasn't particularly well-designed. Gnapster isn't as popular simply because it doesn't run on Windows. If we want a totally open-source Napster, then we need OSS Napster clients for Windows. The reality is, they're the overwhelming majority of the potential userbase for this. We've already got a number of GPL'ed clients on other platforms, so those can be used as a start. Releasing binaries would of course be a necessity, but the source code could come with instructions for compiling with VC++, MingW, Cygwin, and god help us, the free Borland compiler (that thing does no optimizations whatsoever. Try compiling LAME with it and you'll understand).
But is that the number of Napster software downloads or the number of recently active usernames? The number of downloads is invariably higher than the number of users, simply because a lot of people are going to try it and not decide to keep using it.
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Sure. Try This keyboard compare Java applet. Type in any real-world piece of text and compare how far your fingers would go, how many times you use the same finger/hand, and how many strokes are done on each row. You may be surprised.
There's a discussion at Kuro5hin about this article, too. In particular, you might want to read these comments by the author of the article at the Register.
In other news, voodooextreme.com exploded. No one knows why.
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Right - and the story clearly says "Pioneer 6". Pioneer 10 is over 3 billion miles outside the solar system, while Pioneer 6 is orbiting the Sun and was meant to study solar wind, cosmic rays and the Sun's magnetic field.
Except those who bought a brand-spankin' new video card six months after the game shipped and realized that this bootable CD has no drivers for it.
Hmmm. I use Kaffe as my Java VM for Konqueror and I haven't had any problems yet. I just dl'ed the latest version, did a ./configure --prefix=/usr/local, make, make install, and told Konq to autodetect Java. And exactly that it did.
The "previous URL" bug is a problem between Konqueror and HTTP/1.0-compliant proxies such as Junkbuster. I was having the same problem at first, but disabling Konqueror's use of Junkbuster fixed it. Doesn't bother me much, as I only lose the ad blocking.
Some shows are preceded with "the following program is sponsored in part by...", but not all of them. There are no pledge drives. The majority of the programming is Canadian content, natch. CBC stole the show from NBC during the Olympics in some places because CBC was actually carrying live coverage. That, and CBC generally has a reputation of having sports broadcasters who really know what they're talking about. I watch extremely little TV myself, but when I do it's almost always CBC (Hockey Night in Canada or the Royal Canadian Air Farce).
Who's holding the gun to your head and demanding that you release everything under the GPL? If you write a program, the license is your choice. You can choose GPL, BSD, Public Domain, or you can make up something that would give Microsoft and Adobe all sorts of ideas.
Have a problem with the viral nature of the GPL? Tough. You didn't have to use that code from a GPLed program. You have a choice: Take the easy route and use code that's already there to do something your program needs to do, and end up having to release under the GPL, or take the effort and write the damn function yourself, and choose your own license. You can't have it both ways.
This press release recently got trumpeted on the Vorbis mailing list. Scroll down to "New Encoding and Decoding Format Available" for the part relevant to Vorbis.
I'm from Saskatchewan, and we've had broadband here for years. It seems that Sasktel went crazy-funky a number of years ago and laid fiber lines all over the place. Not many high-capacity fiber pipes except to major cities like Saskatoon and Regina, but mostly smaller fiber lines just going all over the place. In fact, Sasktel claims we were the first place in North America to get ADSL. I makes me wonder whenever I think of that and I hear about people in the States who still don't have broadband in cities twice as large as Saskatoon (my hometown). Ah, well. Back to surfing with cable (uncapped, natch).
On a semi-offtopic note...
A friend of mine was telling me about this man who moved into her hometown (small farming town, the armpit of Saskatchewan, basically) and the company he worked for paid to have a dedicated T1 laid to his doorstep. We could only imagine the cost of it.
You, with a card that does 60 fps now will have to upgrade when the next gen of games does only 20 on your vid card. I, with my 200fps card will enjoy the next gen at 60fps just fine, thank you.
In what way does the recording industry have hardware companies by the balls in that they can dictate things like SDMI into their hardware? Why can't the hardware companies just say "This SDMI scheme of yours really sucks, so we're not putting it in our hardware." And if the hardware companies started the design process with it being an unproven protection scheme, and it was proven flawed at a point in the design process where it would be too expensive to redesign the hardware, then that's their problem. They took a risk, and lost.
Also on the subject of EULAs, there's a good article here.
Damn subject line length limit.
Artificial Stupidity was perfected in the enemy behavior code of the Tomb Raider games. I believe it was also partially based on the CPU code the earlier versions of EA's NHL series.
Probably. But that doesn't mean it had to reach 25000mph to leave Earth. If something has no method of self-propulsion along the way, then it must reach "escape velocity" to leave earth. But with propulsion, you can leave earth without exceeding 10mph.
A bullet might need to be fired at escape velocity to leave, but something being pushed all the way up doesn't.
And assuming these speakers are meant for people to hear the output from, they're wasting their time and effort. It's absolutely true that speakers can't ever render a perfect square wave because the components inside act like a mechanical lowpass filter. But to human ears, it doesn't matter. What the mechanical lowpass filter has messed with isn't in our range of hearing. The output is no longer square, but it's still periodic at 15kHz. We still hear the 15khZ fundamental, and everything else doesn't exist according to our ears.
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Oversampling pads the signal with zeros between the samples in order to approximate impulse sampling more closely. The result is that less of the noise power falls within the range of the output lowpass filter than with flat-top sampling and the SNR goes up a bit.
What probably more important os that there' no scientific evidence that people can hear frequencies above 15-16kHz in the presence of other sounds. That's why so many MP3 encoders lowpass filter at 16kHz when encoding at 128kbps; why include those frequencies if they're below the masking threshold?
No, I can't. Sure the input signal has a bunch of odd harmonics with a fundamental of 22kHz, but they're well beyond the range of human hearing. So while the input was a square, it might as well have been sine.
Current SACDs aren't backwards compatible. future ones will using two layers: the lower layer will contain the DSD data, and a normal CD player's layer will pass through that to read the CD layer above.
http://www.sonymusic.com/sacd/
http://www.superaudio-cd.com/
Something that doesn't gush like a press release
Another more objective link
It appears they're using a dual layer method for backwards compatibility. The details about copy protection methods are vague, but they do mention visible and invisible watermarks aimed against both pirates and counterfeiters. But I can't seem to find a decent explanation of how the encoding DSD encoding scheme works.
Gnutella isn't as popular because it wasn't particularly well-designed. Gnapster isn't as popular simply because it doesn't run on Windows. If we want a totally open-source Napster, then we need OSS Napster clients for Windows. The reality is, they're the overwhelming majority of the potential userbase for this. We've already got a number of GPL'ed clients on other platforms, so those can be used as a start. Releasing binaries would of course be a necessity, but the source code could come with instructions for compiling with VC++, MingW, Cygwin, and god help us, the free Borland compiler (that thing does no optimizations whatsoever. Try compiling LAME with it and you'll understand).
But is that the number of Napster software downloads or the number of recently active usernames? The number of downloads is invariably higher than the number of users, simply because a lot of people are going to try it and not decide to keep using it.