Are you running the MTP or UMS firmware on your YP-T9? There's no easy way to tell on the device, it just shows the firmware rev number, but if you bought it in North America or Europe, and haven't updated the firmware, odds are it's the MTP firmware. Either way, you probably want to be running 1.60 or better (my wife's T9 is on 1.67, mine's on 1.68). You can use libmtp (or Windows) to load new firmware (download from Samsung - the UMS version works fine in place of the MTP version -- see the discussion on the xiph wiki for details).
SVI files are (as far as I can tell) just AVI files with specific settings: 208 x 176 at 15 fps, XviD codec, 44.1kHz MP3 audio. Mplayer plays SVI files just fine. I haven't yet transcoded anything to SVI format, I've only had my T9 about a week. (And figuring out all the arguments to get mplayer/mencoder to do the transcoding is no small task!)
If you've got automount running, UMS devices should just magically appear as storage when plugged in. Works fine in Suse 10.1, anyway. For MTP devices, libmtp works fine. I just got a Samsung YP-T9 and replaced the MTP firmware with UMS firmware by transferring it with mtp-sendfile from libmtp. (There's also mtpfs which is supposed to make an MTP device look like a file system. I haven't tried it, it uses FUSE (user-space filesystem) which I haven't got installed at the moment and libmtp did the job.)
On the YP-T9 after transferring, I can play the files directly from the file viewer menu, but I need to run the "update library" to get them to show up under the music menu. (The player also plays Ogg Vorbis files just fine, but the current firmware doesn't seem to recognize Ogg metadata the way it does MP3 metadata. Sigh.) The same seems to be true if I transfer files from Windows in UMS mode.
Seriously, I remember my high school GF and some of her friends wrote fanfic, very early 70s. I don't recall much Trek, there was also "Department S", "The Champions", and some other Brit shows that hit Canadian TV around then.
On the other hand, a clean electric car that is not polluting is something I can measure by just walking on the street.;)
Only in comparison to horses, they pollute the streets something awful.;-)
More seriously, unless you measure the whole process -- everything that goes into making the car as well as making the electricity it runs on -- you don't know it isn't polluting. In particular, electric cars that recharge from coal-fired electrical stations are worse than cars that burn gas. For one coal is just much dirtier, and for another you have to burn extra to make up for transmission losses. Now, if the power comes from nukes or hydroelectric, you're probably right.
Pretty rare, actually. For oddball stuff (eg, an old Intel QX3 microscope) I can find drivers and interface programs with 10 minutes of Google searching. Mainline stuff - printers, scanners, cameras, storage, etc, etc - works out of the box, unlike Windows where the stuff has warnings all over it not to even try plugging it in until you've manged to install the software on the included disc. (Which then insists on trying to download something from Microsoft's web site, etc, etc. Lord help you if you're trying to add it to a safe Windows box, i.e. one that isn't connected to the net.)
Mind, I usually do a few minutes of research before buying anything that costs more than lunch. It's not hard to find out what's likely to work and what's not.
Last gizmo that I couldn't easily get working with Linux was a cheap-ass sub-megapixel digital camera that came as a freebie with something else, and that was several years ago. For all I know it'd work now.
checkmate, i win
Checkmate? You idiot, there's no checkmate in poker.
until basic basic shit like this works without a problem, pushing the linux desktop is a wasted effort.
This stuff nearly all works without a problem on my Linux desktop -- Suse, which is quite a nice distro regardless of what you think of their parent Novell. I've certainly had a hell of a lot fewer problems with plugging and playing stuff into a Linux box than with Windows (got driver disks for that? that support your particular version? and don't require you to download something from Microsoft's web site that ends up requiring you to register for Windows Genuine Advantage?). By that measure, Windows isn't ready for the desktop.
Yeah, you can file for a "declaratory judgement" that you're not infringing any of Microsoft's patents, and then Microsoft has to fight that if they think you are.
Not the wisest course of action unless you have very deep pockets. Lawyer's bills can add up fast, and I doubt any of the groups that might help if you were to get sued would help much if you initiate the process.
Megawatt for megawatt, coal fired plants produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants. It all goes up the stack or carted of as ash, there are no radiological safety requirements. Even so, radwaste has the property that it decays over time, getting progressively more harmless. The simplest disposal method really would be to stuff it back down the mines from which the uranium came in the first place.
Coal ash also contains goodies such as mercury and arsenic, which remain toxic forever, none of this geological eyeblink few thousand years.
Further and more, radioactivity will warn you about itself from a distance, if you have a detector. Poisons (like mercury, arsenic, etc) don't.
A license that MS does not require, and has not agreed to can not restrict MS in any way.
You go to a printer and say "I'll pay you $1000 for 500 copies of this book". You give out - or sell - vouchers for the book. You have procured copies of said book - you caused it to be copied.
If those copies turn out to be infringing the author's copyright, you have procured copyright infringement. The GPLv3 permits copying only if those procuring the the copies agree to the terms.
Unless you're a lawyer with equivalent expertise and experience to Eben Moglen's, you might want to think about whose legal theories are more likely to be correct, yours or his. I'd vote for the latter.
MS,... have their own lawyers (as you may have heard), who are also very smart
Actually, given the percentage of lawsuits that MS gets involved in that they end up losing or settling out of court (at their cost) on, I'm not sure that description is accurate.
Or maybe it's just that MS does so much stupid/illegal/etc stuff that even smart lawyers can't protect them from all the consequences.
The problem is that MS essentially wrote a contract that procures distribution of unspecified versions of SLES (or if specified, maybe they said "current" -- wouldn't want the vouchers going stale). Given all the talk, both parties knew or should have known that the copyright license on that (ie, GPL) would be changing in the near future. If they didn't include verbage in their contract to deal with that contingency, then they were obviously okay with it.
The problem isn't exclusively Microsoft's -- if Microsoft backs off from its patent promise, then Novell has no license to distribute v3 software, or Novell has to repudiate the whole deal too. That just leaves everything status quo ante the original Microsoft-Novell deal, and Microsoft can't try this with any other Linux vendors.
If Microsoft doesn't like the terms of the GPLv3, Microsoft can simply stop distributing coupons.
That doesn't help them. The vouchers they've already distributed have no expiry date, that's the point. If someone in possession of a voucher waits until there's GPLv3 software in Suse Linux and then redeems it, Microsoft has procured the distribution of v3 software.
Microsoft's only hope (short of massive court fights, of course) is that all the vouchers out there in the wild have been redeemed before Novell releases a version of Suse with GPLv3 code in it.
If MS are giving away coupons for a version of SUSE, what the hell is stopping them from giving away the disk version from the day they made their coupons?
If they do that, the patent clause in GPLv2 kicks in, anyone who gets a disk is free to copy and distribute it, and all recipients (and everyone downstream) gets a license from Microsoft covering any patents they might have in that software. One copy of that disk to each of the distro vendors and/or upstream maintainers and all Linux everywhere is covered.
There's a reason MS hates the GPL: they're terrified of it.
Now, MSFT could do a complete about face, embrace the GPL and release "Microsoft Linux", but I don't see that happening in Gates' or Ballmer's lifetimes.
Novell could just maintain their own versions based on the last release made under GPLv2.
Any flaws in this scenario? I'm by no means an expert.
Technically, no. Practically, yes.
To do this, Novell would have to build up a development staff that rivaled Microsoft's in size. They wouldn't be able to simply backport GPLv3 fixes, that'd be copyright infringement, they'd have to go the whole isolation, abstraction, filtration route and rewrite updates from scratch. For lots and lots of packages, including the compilers.
But more significantly, there's no incentive for Novell to do so. They've already got the money from Microsoft. They're (as far as we know) under no obligation to maintain a GPLv2 fork. Spending huge amounts of money to do so does nothing for Novell, so why should they even bother?
So, are you saying there is some sort of conspiracy between music player makers and the fraunhofer institute to keep ogg support off players?
More likely between the player makers and Microsoft, of the same sort we've seen Microsoft do to PC makers: "Sure, we'll license {Windows, WMA} to you -- it will cost $X/unit, or ($X-$Y)/unit if you don't load {Netscape, Ogg} on it." (And since you have to dig for the settings to make Windows Media Player rip CDs to mp3 instead of one of the WMA options (and it doesn't rip to Ogg at all), Joe User is probably going to want WMA capability.)
Because it's currently very expensive (or impossible?) to get chip decoders for OGG Vorbis, because of lack of demand.
VLSI offers their VS1000 Ogg Vorbis decoder (with built in USB and flash interface) for $4 each, quantity 500. No doubt much less in higher quantities. You can get onesies for less than $10 from SparkFun.
Ogg Vorbis is actually a pretty popular encoding for low end embedded devices because there's no licensing involved.
The real problem is with digital music players that also want to be able to play WMA files (which is what Windows Media Player will helpfully rip your CDs to). I suspect that Microsoft leans on the manufacturers a little to make the firmware rather non-cooperative with Ogg, in return for WMA licensing. (This is the case with eg. Samsung YP-T9; the US/Canada firmware only wants to load via MTP, and the provided software doesn't recognize.ogg although the player will play Ogg Vorbis files if they have an.mp3 extension. Reflashing the firmware to the international version lets it appear as a USB storage device and load.ogg files.)
FYI, the pressure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench is something over 1000 atm. The temperature is pretty cold -- a few degrees C. The water isn't solid.
We're talking much higher pressures here, the kind that forms diamonds.
So maybe high-testosterone people are more sensible not to angry faces, but to emotional faces in general.
Or as I pointed out in another post, maybe it means that high-testosterone people learn this kind of task faster. We already know that testosterone has an influence on early brain development.
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Are you running the MTP or UMS firmware on your YP-T9? There's no easy way to tell on the device, it just shows the firmware rev number, but if you bought it in North America or Europe, and haven't updated the firmware, odds are it's the MTP firmware. Either way, you probably want to be running 1.60 or better (my wife's T9 is on 1.67, mine's on 1.68). You can use libmtp (or Windows) to load new firmware (download from Samsung - the UMS version works fine in place of the MTP version -- see the discussion on the xiph wiki for details).
SVI files are (as far as I can tell) just AVI files with specific settings: 208 x 176 at 15 fps, XviD codec, 44.1kHz MP3 audio. Mplayer plays SVI files just fine. I haven't yet transcoded anything to SVI format, I've only had my T9 about a week. (And figuring out all the arguments to get mplayer/mencoder to do the transcoding is no small task!)
If you've got automount running, UMS devices should just magically appear as storage when plugged in. Works fine in Suse 10.1, anyway. For MTP devices, libmtp works fine. I just got a Samsung YP-T9 and replaced the MTP firmware with UMS firmware by transferring it with mtp-sendfile from libmtp. (There's also mtpfs which is supposed to make an MTP device look like a file system. I haven't tried it, it uses FUSE (user-space filesystem) which I haven't got installed at the moment and libmtp did the job.)
On the YP-T9 after transferring, I can play the files directly from the file viewer menu, but I need to run the "update library" to get them to show up under the music menu. (The player also plays Ogg Vorbis files just fine, but the current firmware doesn't seem to recognize Ogg metadata the way it does MP3 metadata. Sigh.) The same seems to be true if I transfer files from Windows in UMS mode.
Where are they??
Hiding, because...
A million nerds want to know.
Seriously, I remember my high school GF and some of her friends wrote fanfic, very early 70s. I don't recall much Trek, there was also "Department S", "The Champions", and some other Brit shows that hit Canadian TV around then.
to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity,
As compared to last week, when they didn't.
A substantial side benefit is the reduction of unwanted basement dwelling DNA from the gene pool.
I don't know, it's a pretty big leap to assume that basement dwelling DNA is part of the gene pool to start with.
Unless... Horrors! You don't suppose... sperm banks!?
On the other hand, a clean electric car that is not polluting is something I can measure by just walking on the street. ;)
;-)
Only in comparison to horses, they pollute the streets something awful.
More seriously, unless you measure the whole process -- everything that goes into making the car as well as making the electricity it runs on -- you don't know it isn't polluting. In particular, electric cars that recharge from coal-fired electrical stations are worse than cars that burn gas. For one coal is just much dirtier, and for another you have to burn extra to make up for transmission losses. Now, if the power comes from nukes or hydroelectric, you're probably right.
and what happens with the stuff that doesn't?
Pretty rare, actually. For oddball stuff (eg, an old Intel QX3 microscope) I can find drivers and interface programs with 10 minutes of Google searching. Mainline stuff - printers, scanners, cameras, storage, etc, etc - works out of the box, unlike Windows where the stuff has warnings all over it not to even try plugging it in until you've manged to install the software on the included disc. (Which then insists on trying to download something from Microsoft's web site, etc, etc. Lord help you if you're trying to add it to a safe Windows box, i.e. one that isn't connected to the net.)
Mind, I usually do a few minutes of research before buying anything that costs more than lunch. It's not hard to find out what's likely to work and what's not.
Last gizmo that I couldn't easily get working with Linux was a cheap-ass sub-megapixel digital camera that came as a freebie with something else, and that was several years ago. For all I know it'd work now.
checkmate, i win
Checkmate? You idiot, there's no checkmate in poker.
until basic basic shit like this works without a problem, pushing the linux desktop is a wasted effort.
This stuff nearly all works without a problem on my Linux desktop -- Suse, which is quite a nice distro regardless of what you think of their parent Novell. I've certainly had a hell of a lot fewer problems with plugging and playing stuff into a Linux box than with Windows (got driver disks for that? that support your particular version? and don't require you to download something from Microsoft's web site that ends up requiring you to register for Windows Genuine Advantage?). By that measure, Windows isn't ready for the desktop.
Yeah, you can file for a "declaratory judgement" that you're not infringing any of Microsoft's patents, and then Microsoft has to fight that if they think you are.
Not the wisest course of action unless you have very deep pockets. Lawyer's bills can add up fast, and I doubt any of the groups that might help if you were to get sued would help much if you initiate the process.
Megawatt for megawatt, coal fired plants produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants. It all goes up the stack or carted of as ash, there are no radiological safety requirements. Even so, radwaste has the property that it decays over time, getting progressively more harmless. The simplest disposal method really would be to stuff it back down the mines from which the uranium came in the first place.
Coal ash also contains goodies such as mercury and arsenic, which remain toxic forever, none of this geological eyeblink few thousand years.
Further and more, radioactivity will warn you about itself from a distance, if you have a detector. Poisons (like mercury, arsenic, etc) don't.
That's okay. If Microsoft does that, it just re-levels the playing field that Microsoft has been trying to upset with their whole "patent peace" deal.
Either way OSS wins.
A license that MS does not require, and has not agreed to can not restrict MS in any way.
You go to a printer and say "I'll pay you $1000 for 500 copies of this book". You give out - or sell - vouchers for the book. You have procured copies of said book - you caused it to be copied.
If those copies turn out to be infringing the author's copyright, you have procured copyright infringement. The GPLv3 permits copying only if those procuring the the copies agree to the terms.
Unless you're a lawyer with equivalent expertise and experience to Eben Moglen's, you might want to think about whose legal theories are more likely to be correct, yours or his. I'd vote for the latter.
MS, ... have their own lawyers (as you may have heard), who are also very smart
Actually, given the percentage of lawsuits that MS gets involved in that they end up losing or settling out of court (at their cost) on, I'm not sure that description is accurate.
Or maybe it's just that MS does so much stupid/illegal/etc stuff that even smart lawyers can't protect them from all the consequences.
The problem is that MS essentially wrote a contract that procures distribution of unspecified versions of SLES (or if specified, maybe they said "current" -- wouldn't want the vouchers going stale). Given all the talk, both parties knew or should have known that the copyright license on that (ie, GPL) would be changing in the near future. If they didn't include verbage in their contract to deal with that contingency, then they were obviously okay with it.
The problem isn't exclusively Microsoft's -- if Microsoft backs off from its patent promise, then Novell has no license to distribute v3 software, or Novell has to repudiate the whole deal too. That just leaves everything status quo ante the original Microsoft-Novell deal, and Microsoft can't try this with any other Linux vendors.
If Microsoft doesn't like the terms of the GPLv3, Microsoft can simply stop distributing coupons.
That doesn't help them. The vouchers they've already distributed have no expiry date, that's the point. If someone in possession of a voucher waits until there's GPLv3 software in Suse Linux and then redeems it, Microsoft has procured the distribution of v3 software.
Microsoft's only hope (short of massive court fights, of course) is that all the vouchers out there in the wild have been redeemed before Novell releases a version of Suse with GPLv3 code in it.
If MS are giving away coupons for a version of SUSE, what the hell is stopping them from giving away the disk version from the day they made their coupons?
If they do that, the patent clause in GPLv2 kicks in, anyone who gets a disk is free to copy and distribute it, and all recipients (and everyone downstream) gets a license from Microsoft covering any patents they might have in that software. One copy of that disk to each of the distro vendors and/or upstream maintainers and all Linux everywhere is covered.
There's a reason MS hates the GPL: they're terrified of it.
Now, MSFT could do a complete about face, embrace the GPL and release "Microsoft Linux", but I don't see that happening in Gates' or Ballmer's lifetimes.
Novell could just maintain their own versions based on the last release made under GPLv2.
Any flaws in this scenario? I'm by no means an expert.
Technically, no. Practically, yes.
To do this, Novell would have to build up a development staff that rivaled Microsoft's in size. They wouldn't be able to simply backport GPLv3 fixes, that'd be copyright infringement, they'd have to go the whole isolation, abstraction, filtration route and rewrite updates from scratch. For lots and lots of packages, including the compilers.
But more significantly, there's no incentive for Novell to do so. They've already got the money from Microsoft. They're (as far as we know) under no obligation to maintain a GPLv2 fork. Spending huge amounts of money to do so does nothing for Novell, so why should they even bother?
I mean, is it good enough... to do what?
Oh, how about evesdrop on a few thousand voice circuits and raise a flag when certain key words or phrases are mentioned?
Woof, woof!
One of the classics.
e.g., Pink Floyd NEVER wrote any pop songs,
Oh, come on. "See Emily Play"? "Jugband Blues"? "Astronomy Domine"? Hmm, okay, maybe not.
but occasionally one was close enough to play on the radio
Yeah, I think I may have to agree with you. Hmm, "San Tropez" perhaps?
So, are you saying there is some sort of conspiracy between music player makers and the fraunhofer institute to keep ogg support off players?
More likely between the player makers and Microsoft, of the same sort we've seen Microsoft do to PC makers: "Sure, we'll license {Windows, WMA} to you -- it will cost $X/unit, or ($X-$Y)/unit if you don't load {Netscape, Ogg} on it." (And since you have to dig for the settings to make Windows Media Player rip CDs to mp3 instead of one of the WMA options (and it doesn't rip to Ogg at all), Joe User is probably going to want WMA capability.)
Because it's currently very expensive (or impossible?) to get chip decoders for OGG Vorbis, because of lack of demand.
.ogg although the player will play Ogg Vorbis files if they have an .mp3 extension. Reflashing the firmware to the international version lets it appear as a USB storage device and load .ogg files.)
VLSI offers their VS1000 Ogg Vorbis decoder (with built in USB and flash interface) for $4 each, quantity 500. No doubt much less in higher quantities. You can get onesies for less than $10 from SparkFun.
Ogg Vorbis is actually a pretty popular encoding for low end embedded devices because there's no licensing involved.
The real problem is with digital music players that also want to be able to play WMA files (which is what Windows Media Player will helpfully rip your CDs to). I suspect that Microsoft leans on the manufacturers a little to make the firmware rather non-cooperative with Ogg, in return for WMA licensing. (This is the case with eg. Samsung YP-T9; the US/Canada firmware only wants to load via MTP, and the provided software doesn't recognize
moving water doesn't freeze
Riiight. Rivers never freeze, and Arctic sea ice is a myth.
Uh huh.
We can see water ice on Mars with a good telescope. The permanent polar ice caps are water ice, they seasonally expand with carbon dioxide (dry) ice.
What's getting planetary scientists exciting is finding evidence of water away from the polar caps.
FYI, the pressure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench is something over 1000 atm. The temperature is pretty cold -- a few degrees C. The water isn't solid.
We're talking much higher pressures here, the kind that forms diamonds.
So maybe high-testosterone people are more sensible not to angry faces, but to emotional faces in general.
Or as I pointed out in another post, maybe it means that high-testosterone people learn this kind of task faster. We already know that testosterone has an influence on early brain development.
Yeah, flawed methodology.