Ashcroft is a conservative, he'll never think of touching the 2nd amendment.
This is more true than you probably realise. During the investigations into 9/11, Ashcroft banned the FBI from searching gun purchase files to see if any of the suspects had purchased weapons in the previous months [New York Times, December 6, 2001]. Considering the contempt Ashcroft has shown for the other nine ammendments, his enthisiasm for protecting the second is a little disturbing IMO.
I don't see the random element with regards to the audio stream -- any given CD would produce the same audio stream each time its played, therefore the same seed, therefore the same order. The idea might work if you used broadcast radio as the seeding source though.
Unless you specifically sign an NDA or it's in your contract that you are not allowed to do this, I don't see what the problem is.
That's not true. There's nothing stopping you from writing the code and putting it into the Public Domain. No problem with copyright ownership or licences and I find it hard to believe that any company would object to the use of Public Domain code. At least I've not encountered one yet.
Not even the UK Data Protection Act (which exists in various implementations throughout the EU) prevents people from voluntarily submitting information about themselves and allowing Google to store that information indefinitely, if they so like.
I don't think that's the problem.
The UK Data Protection Act requires that personal information be purged if the person in question requests it. Google seem to be saying that there is no assurance that this will happen. From Google's privacy policy "[Google does not] guarantee the deletion of emails that are archived even if you cancel your account."
It's good that Google are being up front about this but even so, it simply isn't compatable with UK law.
Looked like this woman had been through about 15 years of binge eating and cocaine diets. She was thin, but her skin was about 3 sizes too large. She looked like she was covered in vienna sausages.
You're underestimating just how depraved and desperate some porn-junkies can be. If there's a market for scat-porn for goodness sake, there just has to be a market for vienna sausages.
I believe the responder's point was that, since a range coder is a simple improvement on the arithmetic encoder, you'd still have to pay for use of the arithmetic encoder patent.
I guessed that, but I he is wrong. The arithmetic codec patents detail specific implementations and not the general case and none of them renormalise to base-n, only to base-2. Note however, that I know nothing about the patent situation, I'm just taking other people's word for it -- the less I think about software patents, the better.
2) Arithmetic encoding is patented by Samsung. (gak!) And it's not like it's hard or anything. Huffman coding was shown to approach arithmetic encoding efficiency as the number of symbols increases, which usually means that distinction is not something to cry about. So we can deal with huffman vs. arithmetic coding for now until the patents expire, at which point everyone (info-zip, IJG, bz2, xiph.org) will switch to it to gain that extra 1-2%.
Range encoders are patent free, tend to be faster than full arithmetic encoders (if implemented correctly that is) and are more efficient than huffman encoders. Worth looking up if you're interested in this sort of thing.
Exactly. It's a good idea in principle -- creating an environment where the hardware can run to it's best capabilities, to paraphrase this Michael character -- but the practicality of it is something else. If his system was to work, it would require a massive change in the economy of the computer industry. Selling computers via paypal is one thing but I don't see anywhere that would allow me to keep this cryogenic system running.
I don't want to think about this too hard because, as I've suggested, this is pure snake oil, IMO.
To expaned even futher, X11 will be what makes certain Linux will never be able to compete with Windows for the Desktop user.
Think about it for a few minutes before modding me as a flame or troll. Mind you, it seems that/. has become more about moderation than discussion for many. Sad, really.
I can't see what you want me to think about. You've presented an assertion but provided no reasoning. If you could elaborate: why is X11 an obstacle to the desktop?
In the interview he claims to have worked for Cryotech and suggests that he uses cryogenics instead of air cooling. There are no fans in other words. I'm still calling shenanigins though.
Main difference between the book and the movie: Asimov didn't have niggers in his books.
I've read every Asimov SF book and as far as I can tell there are no white folks either. In case you missed my point, the humans in his books can be of any race you wish them to be. That's the beauty of the written word; so much can be said without expliticly stating it.
You seem to assume that no mention of race naturally means that all the protaganists are white. This highlights a very disturbing form of bigotry. I hope that the hood isn't so tight that you can't ever cease your hatred momentarily and begin to educate yourself about biology, genetics, ethics and, let's be honest, plain old common decency.
There are reasons why nature has not created bipeds of that size.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a whole group of bipeds that are of around that size or even larger.
Whether or not these particular dinosaurs where a good idea or not however, is another question and I don't have the answer.
It's called experience. If a guy breaks into my house 3 times and I catch him, then I get broke into again with the same MO, but I don't catch him red handed this time, I'd strongly suspect it was the same guy. Even if I don't have "solid" proof.
And as the judge enformed me when I went in for jury duty, circumstantial evidence IS legally admissable evidence.
You make it sound as though you've been told differently by someone:-) Circumstantial evidence is any evidence that doesn't come from an eyewitness or from another direct participant in the case, so of course it's admissable. It would be an unusual legal system that didn't allow such evidence to be admitted.
However, whether or not you can convict on circumstantial evidence alone depends very much on the case and the nature and quantity of the circumstantial evidence. In your example I would doubt that the similarity of the MO alone would be enough to convict.
To bring it back on topic, I question the original assertion that MS has somehow has bought the overturning of the browser patent because there is no MO (MS haven't successfully overturned a patent before and there's certainly no evidence that they've ever payed off the Patent Office). In other words, there isn't even circumstantial evidence! No, the only evidence here is a formed from personal opinion and as I'm sure your friendly judge would have told you, that *isn't* admissable.
"If the whole thing fell somehow like you cut it at the counterweight, cut it way up at the counterweight, it would wrap around the Earth a couple of times," Laubscher says.
Well, that's fine. Calculate the length of that sucker just right and you've got a quick, exhilarating way to travel from one point on Earth to another.
Good point, but in this instance I doubt that any of us are "this tall".
Last I checked the Japanese government was all for large overreaching companies.
Whether or not Microsoft is a "large overreaching companies" is irrelevent here. The anti-monopoly (anti-trust) laws deal with anti-competitive practices -- a very different issue.
for further reading i would suggest: the roaring nineties written by josepth stiglitz. stiglitz, who won the nobel prize in economics, was part of the clinton administration.
Not the same topic but I would recommend "Globalization and its Discontents", also by Stiglitz. In a nutshell, it's a critique of globalization and the economic practices surrounding it. Considering that Stiglitz was also
Chief Economist of the World Bank, he's definately an authority on the subject.
Most substantial applications - and quite a few minor ones - came with an "AREXX port" which you could use to send commands to the app to get it to do things.
Interestingly, although it is called an ARexx port, you don't have to write programs in ARexx to make use of this Amiga feature. There's no reason at all why you can't code your "script" in C. What makes this rather exciting is the possibility of small extensions to Amiga versions of Python or Perl or whatever, to allow interfacing with ARexx ports -- they're just regular ports that listens for certain commands. To my knowledge no one has done this but it's possible. After all that's what ARexx is; Rexx with this feature added.
My point? ARexx (indeed, Rexx in general) sucks (IMO), but the idea of tying applications together and extending them with "ARexx" scripts is a good one and could be much more powerful if better scripting languages were exteneded in a similar way.
That's not right (at least in terms of cut and paste). The X server handles it. Select with the left mouse button, paste with the middle.
What you've described isn't the X11 clipboard. You're instead referring to the primary X selection which is far more ephemeral in comparison to the clipboard selection.
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This is more true than you probably realise. During the investigations into 9/11, Ashcroft banned the FBI from searching gun purchase files to see if any of the suspects had purchased weapons in the previous months [New York Times, December 6, 2001]. Considering the contempt Ashcroft has shown for the other nine ammendments, his enthisiasm for protecting the second is a little disturbing IMO.
I don't see the random element with regards to the audio stream -- any given CD would produce the same audio stream each time its played, therefore the same seed, therefore the same order. The idea might work if you used broadcast radio as the seeding source though.
It's a Porsche Inboxster.
I didn't read any further than this. I immediately clicked the "Reply to This" link instead.
That's not true. There's nothing stopping you from writing the code and putting it into the Public Domain. No problem with copyright ownership or licences and I find it hard to believe that any company would object to the use of Public Domain code. At least I've not encountered one yet.
I don't think that's the problem. The UK Data Protection Act requires that personal information be purged if the person in question requests it. Google seem to be saying that there is no assurance that this will happen. From Google's privacy policy "[Google does not] guarantee the deletion of emails that are archived even if you cancel your account."
It's good that Google are being up front about this but even so, it simply isn't compatable with UK law.
You're underestimating just how depraved and desperate some porn-junkies can be. If there's a market for scat-porn for goodness sake, there just has to be a market for vienna sausages.
I guessed that, but I he is wrong. The arithmetic codec patents detail specific implementations and not the general case and none of them renormalise to base-n, only to base-2. Note however, that I know nothing about the patent situation, I'm just taking other people's word for it -- the less I think about software patents, the better.
sssh... keep this to yourself, but range encoders aren't patented... What's that? That was the point of my original post? Surely not.
Range encoders are patent free, tend to be faster than full arithmetic encoders (if implemented correctly that is) and are more efficient than huffman encoders. Worth looking up if you're interested in this sort of thing.
Exactly. It's a good idea in principle -- creating an environment where the hardware can run to it's best capabilities, to paraphrase this Michael character -- but the practicality of it is something else. If his system was to work, it would require a massive change in the economy of the computer industry. Selling computers via paypal is one thing but I don't see anywhere that would allow me to keep this cryogenic system running.
I don't want to think about this too hard because, as I've suggested, this is pure snake oil, IMO.
I can't see what you want me to think about. You've presented an assertion but provided no reasoning. If you could elaborate: why is X11 an obstacle to the desktop?
In the interview he claims to have worked for Cryotech and suggests that he uses cryogenics instead of air cooling. There are no fans in other words. I'm still calling shenanigins though.
I've read every Asimov SF book and as far as I can tell there are no white folks either. In case you missed my point, the humans in his books can be of any race you wish them to be. That's the beauty of the written word; so much can be said without expliticly stating it.
You seem to assume that no mention of race naturally means that all the protaganists are white. This highlights a very disturbing form of bigotry. I hope that the hood isn't so tight that you can't ever cease your hatred momentarily and begin to educate yourself about biology, genetics, ethics and, let's be honest, plain old common decency.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a whole group of bipeds that are of around that size or even larger. Whether or not these particular dinosaurs where a good idea or not however, is another question and I don't have the answer.
Tea contains caffeine too, although not as much as coffee does . This is only partly relevent though as the reported health benefits of coffee isn't entirely due to the caffeine.
You make it sound as though you've been told differently by someone
To bring it back on topic, I question the original assertion that MS has somehow has bought the overturning of the browser patent because there is no MO (MS haven't successfully overturned a patent before and there's certainly no evidence that they've ever payed off the Patent Office). In other words, there isn't even circumstantial evidence! No, the only evidence here is a formed from personal opinion and as I'm sure your friendly judge would have told you, that *isn't* admissable.
Good point, but in this instance I doubt that any of us are "this tall".
Well, that explains top-posting.
Whether or not Microsoft is a "large overreaching companies" is irrelevent here. The anti-monopoly (anti-trust) laws deal with anti-competitive practices -- a very different issue.
"IANABL, but isn't it "guilty until proven innocent" in the UK?"
Errr, no? Was that a serious question? You do realise that the US legal system is based on the UK system, don't you?
Not the same topic but I would recommend "Globalization and its Discontents", also by Stiglitz. In a nutshell, it's a critique of globalization and the economic practices surrounding it. Considering that Stiglitz was also Chief Economist of the World Bank, he's definately an authority on the subject.
Really?! I'm a big fan of Lisp and have used clisp extensively but never on the Amiga for some reason. I shall have to investigate this...
Interestingly, although it is called an ARexx port, you don't have to write programs in ARexx to make use of this Amiga feature. There's no reason at all why you can't code your "script" in C. What makes this rather exciting is the possibility of small extensions to Amiga versions of Python or Perl or whatever, to allow interfacing with ARexx ports -- they're just regular ports that listens for certain commands. To my knowledge no one has done this but it's possible. After all that's what ARexx is; Rexx with this feature added.
My point? ARexx (indeed, Rexx in general) sucks (IMO), but the idea of tying applications together and extending them with "ARexx" scripts is a good one and could be much more powerful if better scripting languages were exteneded in a similar way.
What you've described isn't the X11 clipboard. You're instead referring to the primary X selection which is far more ephemeral in comparison to the clipboard selection.