I enjoy figuring out what's going on in the "original" text, but I did try reading a page or two of these: http://www.sparknotes.com/nfs/ in B&N one day and I was very impressed. Instead of footnotes in tiny font in awkward places, these have Shakespeare on the left page and mondern english explanations (not bastardised translations) on the right page, very easy to flop back and forth to understand what's going on, or ignore it, or review without getting lost again.
Reading Shakespeare doesn't define 'literacy', but if you're interested in learning why he's been favored so long by so many, these seem a great place to start.
The strongest push-back against Massachusetts' effort to institute open, non-proprietary document formats has come from the accessibility community, who claim that Open-Source desktop software lags behind Windows;
I mean, Thats pretty lame compared to a Treo or something. Portability means alot less when you still need to be within walking distance of a power socket all day to use the damn thing.
After being dropped by Reprise records in 2001, Wilco offered Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for download and streaming both before it was mastered and once it was completely wrapped up. Then, they turned around and sold it to Nonesuch records (_after_ it had already been free to download for a few months) and had their biggest album to date. With their next album, A Ghost Is Born (2004), they did the same thing (minus getting dropped from their label), and once again had their biggest album to date.
Oh, and for both those albums they released download only EPs of ~5 songs you could download once you purchased the CD.
I think calling this an "experiement" might be a little outdated. Wilco ain't exactly a no-name band either.
Why is this fact glossed over again and again? It's an interesting argument to say they think like a searche engine company, that they're trying to "cache" books, but books have much a much more serious history of copyright battles than webpages. I'm interested to see what happens, but pretty wary of google on this one. It certainly is not within the precident of private "fair use".
-mix
Oh, just another thought: It's interesting (in light of talk like a pirate day) to compare google's position to that of the US in the 1800s, or any young country. It was common practice for US publishers to simply sell a UK authors work without returning any compensation, with government support, in defense of having an early culture that needs room to grow. Perhaps the Internet and google could be said to be doing the same; Pirating the real world for content while it's native culture grows.
What companies need to do is establish a very verbose "never pay" policy. If you're going to pay money, pay an army of lawers to drag every claim through court by the suers toenails. Make them know that if they want to persue a claim, they're going to have to front a heluva lot of money for it.
I'm sure the RIAA is cackling all the way to the bank after that.
"Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat," Torvalds continued.
"OSDL is the ideal steward for such an important legal initiative as the patent commons project," said Eben Moglen, chair of the Software Freedom Law Center. "No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are collected together it creates a protective haven where developers can innovate without fear."
Have you ever tried to get in touch with Apple about the musician/industry side of their service? It isn't there. They have direct reps to major labels, but not to Joe Musician. I've tried.
Apple doesn't have a musician "relationship". They just have a tool to upload music. And sell it. There is little else in there that a major label does (funding, advertisement, networking, planning).
Not all major labelage is bad my friend. I might add, if you gave a crap about music you'd have found good music before iTunes. It's only the lazy consumerism sentiment that let labels control your tastes.
If you're idea of innovation is limited to pretty widgets on your desktop, sod off. The open source world is alot bigger than you're fooling yourself into.
Sorry I dont have a link for this, but if I recall Batman had only one peice of armor, it was the yellow batman logo on this shirt. Figured that if you could only afford to have one place on your body properly armored, you should make it the most likely targets.
May have been from the origonil TV series now that I think of it, but I first thought it was from a Frank Miller so......
"California's 1st District Court of Appeal rejected that argument"
This ruling means very little for "the states", as it is a California decision, not a Federal one. Hence, it last very little bearing on current similar cases in states like Delaware. This will actually discourage what MS does for California businesses, but at the expense of driving companies away from the state.
After rtfa, I still have no idea if this was a federal or state court, but if it is a state court, then it means very little for "the states", as California's law means very little to, say, Delaware.
If it was federal, could mean a fair bit.
-mix
Re:Rails, great for those fed up with J2EE.
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> Ruby is easier.
yes
> Until you try to do something even moderately complex.
nothing is easy when it's complex
> caching
nope, its there
> transaction support
yep it's weak.
> object-relational mapping is inferior
Isn't any OR mapper slow/bloated and really just a starting point?
> RoR is nice
yes:)
> but it needs lots of polishing and some redesign.
it's not 1.0 yet
> In its present state RoR can't be compared with J2EE solutions, they are far more powerfull and _flexible_.
I don't code Java professionally, so I don't know. But Rails ain't 1.0 yet. Check back in 3 months;-)
It is like patenting how I make my breakfast in the morning. It's just stupid.
Actually, it's like patenting your breakfast, regardless of how you make it. It doesn't even matter if one guy makes eggs fried with salt and one makes them scrambled with salsa; If you make eggs, I'm suing your ass!
in order to save money over legally obtaining music or movies.
Show me where I can get what I want, where I want, legally. Seriously.
Yeah! Stick it to the man! So....there is this bank I really want to get into the vault of.....but they wont "legally" let me do that either. What the hell is the country coming to.
If you are going to steal music, just steal it. Bonnie and Clyde didn't think they were doing doing what was Right and Just and Legal, they were doing what they wanted to do. Please dont try to justify yourself with "BUT I WAAAAANT IT!". We're (mostly) adults here.
-mix ps- sorry this reads like a troll. I really want it to though, so I guess I'll just do it regardless of what you think.
Compress: 1) to press or squeeze together 2) to reduce in size or volume as if by squeezing
lossy yes, but I'm wouldnt apply the term compression. Its the difference between squeezing a sponge into half its size (compression) and cutting it in half (truncation/decimation).
As for translation to a new format, I'm also wary of calling that transduction, altough I suppose it could be debated. Transduction is specific to a change in type of energy. Better word for format changes might be conversion?
"Talking about music is like dancing about architechture" -Denny Purcell
-Matt
ps- not that any of this is even about music at this point:)
The term I use most in mastering and other pro work is decimation for the sampling rate change and truncation for the word length, barring a dithering level before 8 bit.
The words "lossy compression" I have only heard apply to a digital codec, going from string vibration to air vibration to electronic pulses to magnetic variation to digital pulse code modulation, all that would be considered transduction of energy, not lossy compression. True, it may be called "lossy" to stretch the meaning, but I think thats in the nature of any transduction.
The problem with most lossy codecs arnt that they lose information, its that it doesnt sound graceful.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm a Shakespeare fan myself, to each their own.
I enjoy figuring out what's going on in the "original" text, but I did try reading a page or two of these: http://www.sparknotes.com/nfs/ in B&N one day and I was very impressed. Instead of footnotes in tiny font in awkward places, these have Shakespeare on the left page and mondern english explanations (not bastardised translations) on the right page, very easy to flop back and forth to understand what's going on, or ignore it, or review without getting lost again.
Reading Shakespeare doesn't define 'literacy', but if you're interested in learning why he's been favored so long by so many, these seem a great place to start.
-mix
Sorry!
$ TM=`grep this_article -ioe 'Type Manager'|wc -l`; WC=`cat whis_article|wc -w `; echo print\ \(\($TM/$WC\)\*100\) |perl
4.76190476190476
There we go. damn you bash shell...
$ TM=`grep this_article -ioe 'Type Manager'|wc -l`; WC=`cahis_article|wc -w `; echo print\ \(\($TM/$WC\)\*100\) |perl
4.76190476190476
It wasn't that often. only 4.76% of his total words were Type Manager. Of course that is 7/12 of his lines.....
*yeesh*
Open Format != Open Source
-mix
Whoa, 3 hours of browsing time? :-/
http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,75023,00.html
I mean, Thats pretty lame compared to a Treo or something. Portability means alot less when you still need to be within walking distance of a power socket all day to use the damn thing.
Wow! Go Slashdot! I've never seen this before: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00. html/.
After being dropped by Reprise records in 2001, Wilco offered Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for download and streaming both before it was mastered and once it was completely wrapped up. Then, they turned around and sold it to Nonesuch records (_after_ it had already been free to download for a few months) and had their biggest album to date. With their next album, A Ghost Is Born (2004), they did the same thing (minus getting dropped from their label), and once again had their biggest album to date.
Oh, and for both those albums they released download only EPs of ~5 songs you could download once you purchased the CD.
I think calling this an "experiement" might be a little outdated. Wilco ain't exactly a no-name band either.
Right.
Why is this fact glossed over again and again? It's an interesting argument to say they think like a searche engine company, that they're trying to "cache" books, but books have much a much more serious history of copyright battles than webpages. I'm interested to see what happens, but pretty wary of google on this one. It certainly is not within the precident of private "fair use".
-mix
Oh, just another thought: It's interesting (in light of talk like a pirate day) to compare google's position to that of the US in the 1800s, or any young country. It was common practice for US publishers to simply sell a UK authors work without returning any compensation, with government support, in defense of having an early culture that needs room to grow. Perhaps the Internet and google could be said to be doing the same; Pirating the real world for content while it's native culture grows.
What companies need to do is establish a very verbose "never pay" policy. If you're going to pay money, pay an army of lawers to drag every claim through court by the suers toenails. Make them know that if they want to persue a claim, they're going to have to front a heluva lot of money for it.
I'm sure the RIAA is cackling all the way to the bank after that.
"Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat," Torvalds continued.
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http://linuxbusinessnews.sys-con.com/read/117730.
"The software patent game is like the Cold War: The only thing that protects you is the concept of mutually assured destruction."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1846948,00.a
OSDL Announcement:
"OSDL is the ideal steward for such an important legal initiative as the patent commons project," said Eben Moglen, chair of the Software Freedom Law Center. "No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are collected together it creates a protective haven where developers can innovate without fear."
http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2005/
Long Announcement with more detailed information:
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-08-10-a.html
There we go...now maybe we can have an intelligent conversation
Wait, there is still a programmer that doesn't know PHP?
color me stunned!
-mix
I'll bite!
Have you ever tried to get in touch with Apple about the musician/industry side of their service? It isn't there. They have direct reps to major labels, but not to Joe Musician. I've tried.
Apple doesn't have a musician "relationship". They just have a tool to upload music. And sell it. There is little else in there that a major label does (funding, advertisement, networking, planning).
Not all major labelage is bad my friend. I might add, if you gave a crap about music you'd have found good music before iTunes. It's only the lazy consumerism sentiment that let labels control your tastes.
-mix
I'll bite
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If you're idea of innovation is limited to pretty widgets on your desktop, sod off. The open source world is alot bigger than you're fooling yourself into.
[/flamesuit]
Well I for one welcome our new long battery life overloards!
I cant wait until this gets into the mainline kernel! My laptop has a much bigger battery, so now it'll last 2,423,234,943 hours instead of four!
Wait, how does this matter?
50 years in the future we are still tortured by bad flash design?!?!
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mirror -
http://mirrordot.org/stories/148d3c0453571e33c8fe
Sorry I dont have a link for this, but if I recall Batman had only one peice of armor, it was the yellow batman logo on this shirt. Figured that if you could only afford to have one place on your body properly armored, you should make it the most likely targets.
May have been from the origonil TV series now that I think of it, but I first thought it was from a Frank Miller so......
-mix
Scratch that last post I made (sorry!)
"California's 1st District Court of Appeal rejected that argument"
This ruling means very little for "the states", as it is a California decision, not a Federal one. Hence, it last very little bearing on current similar cases in states like Delaware. This will actually discourage what MS does for California businesses, but at the expense of driving companies away from the state.
-mix
After rtfa, I still have no idea if this was a federal or state court, but if it is a state court, then it means very little for "the states", as California's law means very little to, say, Delaware.
If it was federal, could mean a fair bit.
-mix
> Ruby is easier.
:)
;-)
yes
> Until you try to do something even moderately complex.
nothing is easy when it's complex
> caching
nope, its there
> transaction support
yep it's weak.
> object-relational mapping is inferior
Isn't any OR mapper slow/bloated and really just a starting point?
> RoR is nice
yes
> but it needs lots of polishing and some redesign.
it's not 1.0 yet
> In its present state RoR can't be compared with J2EE solutions, they are far more powerfull and _flexible_.
I don't code Java professionally, so I don't know. But Rails ain't 1.0 yet. Check back in 3 months
It is like patenting how I make my breakfast in the morning. It's just stupid.
Actually, it's like patenting your breakfast, regardless of how you make it. It doesn't even matter if one guy makes eggs fried with salt and one makes them scrambled with salsa; If you make eggs, I'm suing your ass!
-mix
In the future, everyone will be that asshole who stole your girl at the bar.
-mix
Yeah! Stick it to the man! So....there is this bank I really want to get into the vault of.....but they wont "legally" let me do that either. What the hell is the country coming to.
If you are going to steal music, just steal it. Bonnie and Clyde didn't think they were doing doing what was Right and Just and Legal, they were doing what they wanted to do. Please dont try to justify yourself with "BUT I WAAAAANT IT!". We're (mostly) adults here.
-mix
ps- sorry this reads like a troll. I really want it to though, so I guess I'll just do it regardless of what you think.
Should this not be +5 funny?? What went wrong here? :)
Compress: 1) to press or squeeze together 2) to reduce in size or volume as if by squeezing
:)
lossy yes, but I'm wouldnt apply the term compression. Its the difference between squeezing a sponge into half its size (compression) and cutting it in half (truncation/decimation).
As for translation to a new format, I'm also wary of calling that transduction, altough I suppose it could be debated. Transduction is specific to a change in type of energy. Better word for format changes might be conversion?
"Talking about music is like dancing about architechture" -Denny Purcell
-Matt
ps- not that any of this is even about music at this point
The term I use most in mastering and other pro work is decimation for the sampling rate change and truncation for the word length, barring a dithering level before 8 bit.
The words "lossy compression" I have only heard apply to a digital codec, going from string vibration to air vibration to electronic pulses to magnetic variation to digital pulse code modulation, all that would be considered transduction of energy, not lossy compression. True, it may be called "lossy" to stretch the meaning, but I think thats in the nature of any transduction.
The problem with most lossy codecs arnt that they lose information, its that it doesnt sound graceful.
-Matt
I use PAL you insensitive clod! ;-)