Considering he wants to back up his music in lossless form from a digital media source, Nyquist's theorem has nothing to do with it unless he's having to resample the CD through his audio card's input (an extra ADC->DAC step), which I would strongly advise against.
All he wants is a lossless audio codec which will take 44100Hz 16bit stereo as input, and encode it that way. FLAC sounds perfect for the job.
I hate it when files are recorded with different volume levels
You should try this, a nice, free mp3 volume level normalizer which doesn't re-encode the mp3 in any way. Only limitation is the normalization is done on a ~1.5dB discrete granularity (which in practice is completely acceptible).
BSOD's are errors that usually have a distinct cause, such as buggy drivers, faulty hardware, etc.
Or badly designed/implemented kernels. These crashes are certainly driver related since I can trace them back to the.VXD's. In both cases, they are default Win32 drivers.
You're either very lucky or no longer regularly using a Microsoft operating system. I get blue screens on my 2000 and XP Pro boxes about once a month each.
Which is around 20x more reliable than my old 98SE workstations, granted.
Perhaps you weren't reading the article (this is/. after all), but the point is even though spammers *do not know* most of these gmail addresses, they still send spam by using a dictionary attack.
I have 12 gmail accounts, and the ones that have "normal" words and names in them get loads of spam. But the other, stranger names get none. And I have given the addresses out equally (to a select few people).
I know the difference. I just couldn't remember where Geneva was. After a nap I now remember it lies across the borders of both France and Switzerland. I'd be ashamed if it weren't for the weekend I just had.
The Swedish LHC (CERN) guys are going to need to be sending *petabytes* of collision data around the world for analysis over the course of their experiments. It's crazy to think it, but some people really do have a need for this. I suppose this is why the Internet2 is largely restricted to research and education purposes.
To be more specific, and this is by no means a complete or fully correct definition, a quaternion is a generalised, unambiguous and succinct way of representing and interpolating rotation about a set of axes, the path of the rotation appearing as the shortest route between two points on the surface of a higher dimension sphere, thus also avoiding Gimbal lock. Or some such crap, I can't remember exactly:)
It looks like they've patented the implementation of the math to represent these basic 3D transforms, but not the math itself. So whether you used quaternions to animate your movement, or Euler angles, or whatever, I *think* it's the displayed visual result they're after. Like everyone's saying though, they're really being a bit too vague to tell exactly!
Btw, just a quick correction: there's more matrix math in 3D engines these days than ever before (part of my job is to write these things) but that's only because there are many more new algorithms and data sets than before. Quaternions are only particularly useful for compressing and easily representing rotation (think 'joints') animation.
My brain got sore from reading that after the first few sentences, but in effect what they're saying is they've patented the multiplying of two 4x4 matrices, or the multiplying of a 3 or 4 component vector by a 3x4 or 4x4 component matrix -- which gives you your object space -> world space, or world space -> camera space transform (or the concatenation thereof).
Hello, this has been around since the fucking dawn of Cartesian math!
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Considering he wants to back up his music in lossless form from a digital media source, Nyquist's theorem has nothing to do with it unless he's having to resample the CD through his audio card's input (an extra ADC->DAC step), which I would strongly advise against.
All he wants is a lossless audio codec which will take 44100Hz 16bit stereo as input, and encode it that way. FLAC sounds perfect for the job.
... but I don't want to be sucked into it!
Time is simply the distance along the groove. The groove is still a 1-dimensional entity.
I hate it when files are recorded with different volume levels
You should try this, a nice, free mp3 volume level normalizer which doesn't re-encode the mp3 in any way. Only limitation is the normalization is done on a ~1.5dB discrete granularity (which in practice is completely acceptible).
I believe the article was talking about it moving twice the galaxy's escape velocity, not twice the speed of light.
Yadda yadda
Just kill Jar Jar FFS!
Shouldn't this be under "It's Funny, Laugh"?
BSOD's are errors that usually have a distinct cause, such as buggy drivers, faulty hardware, etc.
.VXD's. In both cases, they are default Win32 drivers.
Or badly designed/implemented kernels. These crashes are certainly driver related since I can trace them back to the
You're either very lucky or no longer regularly using a Microsoft operating system. I get blue screens on my 2000 and XP Pro boxes about once a month each.
Which is around 20x more reliable than my old 98SE workstations, granted.
Some for different types of correspondance, and some for pure online storage space abuse :)
Perhaps you weren't reading the article (this is /. after all), but the point is even though spammers *do not know* most of these gmail addresses, they still send spam by using a dictionary attack.
I have 12 gmail accounts, and the ones that have "normal" words and names in them get loads of spam. But the other, stranger names get none. And I have given the addresses out equally (to a select few people).
Mayonnaise, however, does. And it goes great with chips!
Quite so.
I know the difference. I just couldn't remember where Geneva was. After a nap I now remember it lies across the borders of both France and Switzerland. I'd be ashamed if it weren't for the weekend I just had.
Hmm, remind me not to take order of operators for granted when using MS calculator. Silly piece of crap software (>_)
which totals about 6 Petabytes of data a year
At 100Gbps that's still 5 months per 1Pb. These guys sure are demanding!
The Swedish LHC (CERN) guys are going to need to be sending *petabytes* of collision data around the world for analysis over the course of their experiments. It's crazy to think it, but some people really do have a need for this. I suppose this is why the Internet2 is largely restricted to research and education purposes.
Around 1.5 full length DVDs including extra features, per second. Yikes!
Mod parent up. I wanted to say something similar :)
I don't know any torrent clients that allow you to completely disallow uploads, so I'm not sure how this guy can claim not to be uploading at all.
I agree. What a complete load of drivel!
To be more specific, and this is by no means a complete or fully correct definition, a quaternion is a generalised, unambiguous and succinct way of representing and interpolating rotation about a set of axes, the path of the rotation appearing as the shortest route between two points on the surface of a higher dimension sphere, thus also avoiding Gimbal lock. Or some such crap, I can't remember exactly :)
It looks like they've patented the implementation of the math to represent these basic 3D transforms, but not the math itself. So whether you used quaternions to animate your movement, or Euler angles, or whatever, I *think* it's the displayed visual result they're after. Like everyone's saying though, they're really being a bit too vague to tell exactly!
Btw, just a quick correction: there's more matrix math in 3D engines these days than ever before (part of my job is to write these things) but that's only because there are many more new algorithms and data sets than before. Quaternions are only particularly useful for compressing and easily representing rotation (think 'joints') animation.
My brain got sore from reading that after the first few sentences, but in effect what they're saying is they've patented the multiplying of two 4x4 matrices, or the multiplying of a 3 or 4 component vector by a 3x4 or 4x4 component matrix -- which gives you your object space -> world space, or world space -> camera space transform (or the concatenation thereof).
Hello, this has been around since the fucking dawn of Cartesian math!
... that Id Software is missing from the list.
And also any of the companies that develop the really serious quantum / particle physics and medical scan 3D data visualization software.
It's obvious that these guys just want to make a big scene.
Actually, I checked up on Foo Goo (id #98336) and he actually died 6 years ago
This guy might help you out