...when people find out their signals are unwatchable with constant dropouts and so on, whereas on analog, it was passable. It's the herky-jerky sound that drives me insane.
Trying out some of these homebrewed antennae, though...maybe that will work.
Of course, in certain situations, such as official proceedings of our government, that is exactly what should happen. Every spoken word recorded as potential evidence. Preferrably, committee proceedings and the like should be recorded and published to the Internet in the interest of public interest.
Far different in the private sector, however. Not sure Sarbanes-Oxley applies there.
something like metamorphic rock like Obsidian, which looks watery with its conchoidal fractures and shiny black surface...wouldn't be surprised if it isn't molten rock flow exposed.
Oh, sure...it's taxpayer-funded. But I'm sure any subscription service to AccuWeather.com would cost me personally significantly more than whatever pittance the NWS extracts from my gross pay. Why? They have to make back the money they're not getting from those who choose not to subscribe.
So the question is: Do we all benefit from a public weather service? Once you figure in emergency forecasts, farm forecasts, etc., it's difficult to conclude that we don't. Further, we don't have to rely on that pain in our knee once AccuWeather goes bankrupt trying to charge $4.99/mo for access to their RSS feed, assuming they provide one, and farmers don't have to buy forecasts in a bundle with Roundup Ready soybean seed/pesticide from ADM.
We don't all want to be beholden to entities whose only motive is profit.
I set up my Clie with a cable so I could use my Sprint cell phone to check and send e-mail while on the road, browse the web, etc. The Sprint cell network didn't appear to offer an SMTP server for sending, and my ISP (Charter) didn't allow SMTP access from non-Charter IPs. So I set up SMTP at home (secured) and IMAP, registered with dyndns.org and used my home machine to relay mail from my Sprint-network-using PDA. Worked like a charm...I didn't really know any other way to accomplish this.
Until ISPs offer secured SMTP from anywhere, it seems a bit arbitrary to take measures like this. The answer is available, and it isn't complicated; it's just that getting ISPs to implement good technology is harder than it needs to be.
The problem with playability NEVER came from file formats - it ALWAYS came from patent protected codecs. The patents in question have over a decade before expiration, so it seems likely there will never be a UNIX player for Quicktime movies made with the Sorenson codec.
The ball is entirely in Apple's court too - they have exclusive licensing rights over the patents in question.
And if Apple relinquished its exclusive claim to those rights, you'd still need to depend upon Sorenson to license its IP to someone else. Don't think they won't charge for that...someone is going to own the top-notch codecs until the open source world gets off its ass and develops the top-notch codecs itself. Ogg Vorbis is promising for audio...that's what I mean.
Do it yourself, instead of whining because someone owns what you want.
A better question might be "how is Celine Dion in the top 10?", since it crashes computers when you try to play it on a computer...oh yeah...felt-tip marker.
Absolutely. She sold out a large auditorium here in Greenville SC last month, sold a lot of t-shirts, bumper stickers, CDs (both her own and others on her Righteous Babe label) and put on a hell of a great show for thousands of people who adore her in a relatively small Southern city. All without the help of the major labels, who would love to sink their claws into her...she won't have it, and the best thing is she doesn't need it.
That's the problem I have with this...It makes it appear as if each and every poster is directly affiliated with the RoadRunner division of AOL/TW. That header is supposed to reflect the personal affiliations of the individual in question, and by replacing them all with their own, it does appear that they are claiming some sort of ownership and, therefore, responsibility for the posting. What's next? A copyright message?
Maybe if we all inundate the USPTO with stupid crap like this, they won't have time to get to the truly scary stuff entities like Microsoft are trying to use them to do.
I get very uncomfortable around fanatics like Chuck - I've been an engineer for a long time and I usually find that anyone with only one tool is going to try and redefine all problems to be fixable with that tool.
Chuck Moore's genius is not that he redefines all problems to be fixable with his tool, but that he redefines his tool to fix all problems, or builds new tools from scratch.
The man has created a programming language and then created an OS to run the CAD system he created for designing hardware to run his programming language natively. Maybe you think this is reinventing the wheel; but if you need the wheel to work in a particular way, then maybe it needs reinventing.
>The point I'm trying to make is that Apple hasn't stopped you from writing a Quicktime client. They simply haven't provided you with a CODEC which they're paying to license from Sorenson.. It's a big difference..
They not only have not provided the CODEC, they have also not allowed its algorithm to be coded. It is a big difference. They are blocking me from viewing copyrighted content I own on the operating system I prefer using software patents.
To be fair, it is actually a pretty sweet deal for Sorenson to have inked the exclusive deal with Apple. Sorenson didn't have to, but it did. Apple didn't have to, but it could. It gives Apple a tremendous advantage in the DV field, having exclusive rights to the best codec...the best things typically aren't developed for free.
While Road Runner isn't blocking (my cable modem light is still going nuts even when my computer is off); it is part of their Terms of Agreement: no e-mail servers, no web servers, no port scans.
I did a tcpdump this morning to see what the hell was going on with my modem's data light...it's been blinking like mad even when the computer is off for almost a week now. Check of the website indicates that they're going through and detecting customers with open ports 80 and who are "infected" (with IIS, I presume:-) and will be shutting off those customers for a 12 hour period Aug 9, I guess so they can make sure everyone applies the patch to their crapware.
Anyway, here's the relevant bit from Time Warner in Columbia, SC.
Most Americans like to think they understand what "free" means in that usage what's so hard about to understand about "freedom" when it comes to speech, ideas and technological development?
No no no...Doggett is the new Scully and that New Orleans detective played by Annabeth Gish is the new Mulder. I thought it was pretty evident in the last episode from this season when they told Kersh they were the X-Files now...
Could be a good show, still, if Carter uses it to do some of the things he wanted to do with The Lone Gunmen and Harsh Realm...almost a fresh start.
We shall see.
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It is the other governments in the world, deciding they'd rather not turn over their assets to a company in Suburbia, US run by a megalomaniacal geek with a penchant for the nasty reality of Getting It Done.
The European Union, Brazil, Japan, China, the USSR, the Third World...those are places where Microsoft's appeal ends and the future begins. India and China alone accomodate half the world's population. The US, economically, is strong; but the US is weak in so many other ways....discernment, taste, tradition, justice.
Microsoft won't be Big Brother...Big Brother knows how to fake a videotape.
I really don't understand what Microsoft is trying to protect itself from. The only way that a public license would obligate Microsoft in any way would be if Microsoft were to try to use a public-license software program in one of their products.
Neither am I a lawyer, but I don't have to be to recognize that Microsoft is quite shit-scared of the various open-source and Free software initiatives at which they've recently begun publicly lashing out.
It's almost as if they're frightened of being forced to "give away" their expensive software because of an accidental inclusion or an act of sabotage.
Of course, we know this isn't the way the licenses work, but as they say, paranoia will destroya.
You are the one who claimed the G4 did it faster than a ghz P3. I do believe that the burden of proof is on you, sir. [. ..] In any case, YOU tell ME how long it takes a ghz P3 to complete the test. That's not my job. My job is to pee on your assertions until you either give up, or produce some numbers to back up your claim.
I'm feeling generous. Here are some relevant SETI@Home benchmarks (courtesy of Mr. Steve Nospam in comp.sys.mac.advocacy):
SETI@home (for x86, non-overclocked and Windows only)
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...when people find out their signals are unwatchable with constant dropouts and so on, whereas on analog, it was passable. It's the herky-jerky sound that drives me insane.
Trying out some of these homebrewed antennae, though...maybe that will work.
P.
...but I think the place where they tortured the Dirty Bomber Jose Padilla is in Ford's district.
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Of course, in certain situations, such as official proceedings of our government, that is exactly what should happen. Every spoken word recorded as potential evidence. Preferrably, committee proceedings and the like should be recorded and published to the Internet in the interest of public interest.
Far different in the private sector, however. Not sure Sarbanes-Oxley applies there.
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something like metamorphic rock like Obsidian, which looks watery with its conchoidal fractures and shiny black surface...wouldn't be surprised if it isn't molten rock flow exposed.
P.
Oh, sure...it's taxpayer-funded. But I'm sure any subscription service to AccuWeather.com would cost me personally significantly more than whatever pittance the NWS extracts from my gross pay. Why? They have to make back the money they're not getting from those who choose not to subscribe.
So the question is: Do we all benefit from a public weather service? Once you figure in emergency forecasts, farm forecasts, etc., it's difficult to conclude that we don't. Further, we don't have to rely on that pain in our knee once AccuWeather goes bankrupt trying to charge $4.99/mo for access to their RSS feed, assuming they provide one, and farmers don't have to buy forecasts in a bundle with Roundup Ready soybean seed/pesticide from ADM.
We don't all want to be beholden to entities whose only motive is profit.
P.
So a government monopoly on weather services benefits us how exactly?
We get free weather forecasts?
Crike.
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If macintosh computers and OSX got as popular as Windows, there'd be more incentive for worm-writers to write one.
This is known, of course, as the Apache Principle.
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Of course, all "vegetables" are "technically" fruits. The notion of "vegetable" as distinct from fruit is a cultural construct. Ain't Slashdot great?
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Impeding commerce.
Of course, most anti-spam measures could be categorized this way, as well, technically.
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I set up my Clie with a cable so I could use my Sprint cell phone to check and send e-mail while on the road, browse the web, etc. The Sprint cell network didn't appear to offer an SMTP server for sending, and my ISP (Charter) didn't allow SMTP access from non-Charter IPs. So I set up SMTP at home (secured) and IMAP, registered with dyndns.org and used my home machine to relay mail from my Sprint-network-using PDA. Worked like a charm...I didn't really know any other way to accomplish this.
Until ISPs offer secured SMTP from anywhere, it seems a bit arbitrary to take measures like this. The answer is available, and it isn't complicated; it's just that getting ISPs to implement good technology is harder than it needs to be.
P.
The problem with playability NEVER came from file formats - it ALWAYS came from patent protected codecs. The patents in question have over a decade before expiration, so it seems likely there will never be a UNIX player for Quicktime movies made with the Sorenson codec.
The ball is entirely in Apple's court too - they have exclusive licensing rights over the patents in question.
And if Apple relinquished its exclusive claim to those rights, you'd still need to depend upon Sorenson to license its IP to someone else. Don't think they won't charge for that...someone is going to own the top-notch codecs until the open source world gets off its ass and develops the top-notch codecs itself. Ogg Vorbis is promising for audio...that's what I mean.
Do it yourself, instead of whining because someone owns what you want.
P.
Um, Eminem is a really good rapper.
Almost the top turd on the dungpile...
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And why is Celine Dion in the top ten?
A better question might be "how is Celine Dion in the top 10?", since it crashes computers when you try to play it on a computer...oh yeah...felt-tip marker.
:-)
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Absolutely. She sold out a large auditorium here in Greenville SC last month, sold a lot of t-shirts, bumper stickers, CDs (both her own and others on her Righteous Babe label) and put on a hell of a great show for thousands of people who adore her in a relatively small Southern city. All without the help of the major labels, who would love to sink their claws into her...she won't have it, and the best thing is she doesn't need it.
Nobody else does, either.
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That's the problem I have with this...It makes it appear as if each and every poster is directly affiliated with the RoadRunner division of AOL/TW. That header is supposed to reflect the personal affiliations of the individual in question, and by replacing them all with their own, it does appear that they are claiming some sort of ownership and, therefore, responsibility for the posting. What's next? A copyright message?
P.
Maybe if we all inundate the USPTO with stupid crap like this, they won't have time to get to the truly scary stuff entities like Microsoft are trying to use them to do.
P.
Chuck Moore's genius is not that he redefines all problems to be fixable with his tool, but that he redefines his tool to fix all problems, or builds new tools from scratch.
The man has created a programming language and then created an OS to run the CAD system he created for designing hardware to run his programming language natively. Maybe you think this is reinventing the wheel; but if you need the wheel to work in a particular way, then maybe it needs reinventing.
P.
They not only have not provided the CODEC, they have also not allowed its algorithm to be coded. It is a big difference. They are blocking me from viewing copyrighted content I own on the operating system I prefer using software patents.
To be fair, it is actually a pretty sweet deal for Sorenson to have inked the exclusive deal with Apple. Sorenson didn't have to, but it did. Apple didn't have to, but it could. It gives Apple a tremendous advantage in the DV field, having exclusive rights to the best codec...the best things typically aren't developed for free.
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North Carolina's Outer Banks are totally devoid of light on that map...
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I did a tcpdump this morning to see what the hell was going on with my modem's data light...it's been blinking like mad even when the computer is off for almost a week now. Check of the website indicates that they're going through and detecting customers with open ports 80 and who are "infected" (with IIS, I presume :-) and will be shutting off those customers for a 12 hour period Aug 9, I guess so they can make sure everyone applies the patch to their crapware.
Anyway, here's the relevant bit from Time Warner in Columbia, SC.
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Most Americans are idiots.
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Could be a good show, still, if Carter uses it to do some of the things he wanted to do with The Lone Gunmen and Harsh Realm...almost a fresh start.
We shall see.
P.
It is the other governments in the world, deciding they'd rather not turn over their assets to a company in Suburbia, US run by a megalomaniacal geek with a penchant for the nasty reality of Getting It Done.
The European Union, Brazil, Japan, China, the USSR, the Third World...those are places where Microsoft's appeal ends and the future begins. India and China alone accomodate half the world's population. The US, economically, is strong; but the US is weak in so many other ways....discernment, taste, tradition, justice.
Microsoft won't be Big Brother...Big Brother knows how to fake a videotape.
P.
Neither am I a lawyer, but I don't have to be to recognize that Microsoft is quite shit-scared of the various open-source and Free software initiatives at which they've recently begun publicly lashing out.
It's almost as if they're frightened of being forced to "give away" their expensive software because of an accidental inclusion or an act of sabotage.
Of course, we know this isn't the way the licenses work, but as they say, paranoia will destroya.
P.
You are the one who claimed the G4 did it faster than a ghz P3. I do believe that the burden of proof is on you, sir. [. . .] In any case, YOU tell ME how long it takes a ghz P3 to complete the test. That's not my job. My job is to pee on your assertions until you either give up, or produce some numbers to back up your claim.
I'm feeling generous. Here are some relevant SETI@Home benchmarks (courtesy of Mr. Steve Nospam in comp.sys.mac.advocacy):
SETI@home (for x86, non-overclocked and Windows only)
450 MHz PIII: 6:53-8:52
500 MHz PIII: 6:20-7:31
550 MHz PIII: 6:13-6:53
600 MHz PIII: 5:11-7:12
733 MHz PIII: 4:43
450 MHz G4: 5:13
500 MHz G4: 4:27-4:41
500 MHz Athlon: 7:15-7:42
600 MHz Athlon: 6:54-7:37
650 MHz Athlon: 6:24
750 MHz Athlon: 5:54-6:45
800 MHz Athlon: 6:18
(http://www.teamlambchop.com/bench/results.htm)
500 MHz PIII: 8.17
800 MHz PIII: 7.00
933 MHz PIII: 5.95
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/000605-000015.html)
800 MHz Athlon: 7.47= 252&page=9)
900 MHz Athlon: 6.97
1000 MHz Athlon: 6.43
800 MHz Athlon (TBird): 6.1
(http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid
Regards,
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