Well, it has only belonged to Sun for a few months. The actual company who desserves is StarDivision. Now, if Sun...
realize that they are about to lose more cash with SO than they expected to make
still wants to gain market shares
and still wants to piss off Kro$oft
Then, as this is not their baby, they will easily get rid of it. BTW, could we expect some GPL'ed Swing-like toolkit for Guavac/Kaffe, one of these days ? --
It seems you have not been lucky with your hardware. I personally have 2 pc. One is equipped with an ATI AIW128 card (previously with an Xpert98) and my laptop has a Rage Pro 3D LT inside. All of them run perfectly but I admit I had once to send an email to support@atitech.ca in order to receive (3 days later) a brand new CD including Cinemaster in my mailbox. this was about a TV Tuner problem... Nothing *that* serious regarding my absolute TV non-addiction. I am also really happy with one important thing regarding ATI: they respect the colors (sound like a soap ad but I mean it). Take a Voodoo, it'll be "too green", a Matrox won't produce a "dark black" and a Geforce has some "extra yellow". This is the reason Apple mostly uses these cards in their Mac which are, IIRP, the graphists' machines. Au revoir. --
Let's make a search engine that looks for the highest prices around.
Give it a nice interface.
Now, add the possibility to reverse sort the data.
Could they attack you for this?
Alternative way:
Ask for a Chinese cousin to set a low-prices search engine in his country.
Now, only browse his results and publish them on line.
Will you be sued?
Something in Internet is stronger than multinational lawyers: It is international. If you can establish a tax-free copmpany somewhere, you should also be able to set up a web server in a lawyer-free country, shouldn't you ? --
Don't forget than MS apps are full of these wizards that can remember whatever action you've done.
I prefer having no browser at all than having it and knowing that every time I'd get tempted to do something that could be non-work-related, not only the computer:
will offer it to me before I reasonably decide to do it later (and thus open the related piece of software)
but also he'll just report this to some executive (who'll just consider it as a misbehavior instead of judging the results he should actually expect from me)?
Now, let's dream a bit further about this and imagine yourself suspiciously staring at the ICQ icon like you'd look at a Damocles sword ? No doubt, MS-Big-Bro will just interpret this as a desire an it won't be long before it opens it.
This is for such (edulcorated, though) reasons that most of my colleagues use their own laptops for personal (mentally healthy) use, as here, any URL containing the words "forum" or "message" is forbidden. --
Slashdotter's version: What are your executives afraid of? Officially, that somebody would copy their technology if they put some code in the GPL? If this is *that* revolutionary, then they could easily check that nobody copies them by scaning the concurrents' drivers. Remember when Quake source code was stolen from crackdotcom's server, Carmack just said that nobody could use it for a new product, as there'd be no problem to have a lawyer demonstrating this copyright infringment. IMHO, they might just fear that someone just points out that, despite the marketing guys' buzzwords, they just released a bunch of (ISO9k'ed, of course) crap, in which case it'd be better not to release any source code.
You only take one risk if you release something: Some hacker might just make it *far* better, which is gonna sell a lot of pieces of hardware.
...then this is not a secret. In France we have an expression to describe all these hoaxes: "Secret de Polichinelle". This basically mean that we know the thing and we got so used to it than even making it official doesn't make us care. I have heard about cellular phones emissions for years. I am sure of one thing that is important and that the study won't even mention: Cellular phones' radiation make people associal. Don't believe me? Ever sat next to a gossiper in the sub/train/plane/bus? Ever been interrupted while (c*e*n*s*o*r*e*d)? (and always the same excuse: "oups, my handy, this could be important"). The only positive thing about demonstrating some handy related cancer hazards could be to make people use these phones less spontaneously.... Like "thinking first" It would be that fantastic if we could finally get actual information on others things that we are not used to be suspicious about. BTW, making a story about future announces from somebody just sounds like one of Bill's inventions (according to its "secret diary" : the pre-announce.) Is Slashdot looking forward to be part of the sensation press? --
Napster ? Hollywood ? Could be some sort of streaming media company aimed at interactive digital broadcasting... Sounds Deja-vu. I mean, this is so buzzworded that it would really be interesting if there were sufficient hype 'round this to democratize Internet/Radio/TV, this time. Of course, this'd imply more bandwidth, cheaper stuff but also... pity... a deeper supermarketization of the Net. --
I agree with most people here by saying that it is a good thing to have StarOffice GPLed... The name Starzilla comes to my mind, which means, to become a perfect product... later. But, if I encourage people to honour this initiative, I won't personnally use it. I don't like the idea of using a XXXMo program suite to type a letter. As of Yet, I use GNUmeric and ABIsuite. Not the lightest but at least they do the job. I think there is a design problem in most office suites today which is related to their integration level. I mean integrating software components together over a software integrator (Gnome, windows, etc) sounds a bit redundant to me. I just hope that Starzilla will look more like a Lego set than a menhir. --
Hi, munificent Slashdot moderator. Thou might have made a wrong choice by classifying this message's parent as a troll/flamebait,etc (hence giving i the 0 it IMHO didn't desserves). If there no actual TLDs have now been defined then Anonymous Cowards didn't have a bad idea by suggesting the.sex TLD. I have been surfing the web since 1990 an I saw more and more sex domains appearing amongst my Altavista search results. Imagine yourself finding some bizarre porno-nazi area while looking for some specs concerning SMP Alpha systems (this happens more than one'd expect:-( ). If one could convince the pornographs to use the.sex TLD and only this one then this could made most people searches even easier. For lotta people, the Internet is still a library, not a shopping-mall nor a sexodrome. TLD were originately aimed at allowing a basic web sites classification that would have overidden acronyms (caca.edu would be a education-related site, not a scat one ), we should look deeper into it and IMHO this is far more important to distinguish between.edu and.sex than between.com and.shop. Bye. --
I was willing to bring some accuracy rather than just "bicker" (whaddazitmeaninbloodyfrench ?) you. So, please, don't take it wrong, the way you said it was confusing to me: > Yet their footprint is incredibly small. I think here that you meant Photon's which *is* that small. QNX'X is small but not exageratedly.
> Check out the QNX website for a demo http://www.qnx.com). > A dialer and a graphical web browser all on a floppy disk?! IIRC, the demo doesn't feature X but only Photon.
Sorry but QNX's preferred graphical engine is not X, it is Photon. There is an X port but it is based on X11R5 rather than X11R6. I suggest you made a quick visit to this page in order to investigate both of these. --
What about Mozilla ? I believe that once up and running (IE not so far from today for the running version I have installed with the SuSe 6.4) this could be a *very* good thing for "alternatists". If this is not enough, then I'd also bet on Wine, Amaya or, simply the Java browser. Of course, if people worked more on an easy-to-integrate platform then with a solid browser engine and lots of external components we could do marvels, like in Acorn RiscOS !Browse or !Oregano... Remember that IBM recently got involved in delivering Linux freaks a promising JDK1.3. So, just encourage Mozilla developper whatever your way (test, code, design, art, ideas, or just love letters) and I'm sure they will b so happy we'll finally have a browser as good as Gimp is in his own software category. --
Oups, I forgot a detail: It is obvious that this suggestion only applies to commercial music as there should *not* be any embedded ad in free music at all. --
I call this "terrorism" not because this is *that* frightening. This is legitimate for somebody to protest against whatever he feels contestable. This way is not the most efficient ever as it would not be systematical, according to the number of songs that are currently available via Napster which "recipients" will just attempt to download another copy of the concerned song, hoping this would not be spoiled. No, let's try being constructive: Anyway if people argue that they use Napster like an intelligent radio (which allow them to chose whichever song and which, as a radio, let them record these - digitally onto their computer in this case) then a good issue would be to ask Napster to embed (on the fly) small ads at the beginning of the downloaded songs so that the perceived ad fee would just go to whoever claims he desserves it. I'd personally accept this kind of counterpart if I could anyway listen to the music I like. As a musician, I'd also consider it a better proof of my interest in my listeners than just intending to demonstrate them I don't need them. --
SQRT(21^2+16.5^2) This makes a 70cm diag. screen (26.7 inch monitor). If this can sound good to play Civilization (is the refresh quick enough for Quake ?), this is just a little slow to watch DVD. What about its consummation, especially compared to previous laptops ? Do IBM intend to make big (I mean tall, not necessarily revolutionary) laptop using these ? --
I don't like to see SCO's end. I used to work with their Unix some years ago and I have to admit that, despite its relative lack of user friendship(*), it was doing its job fairly well. (*I mean the lack of tools, not the lack of configurability which was definitively approaching most other Unixes on the market) For example, you should take a look to RootShell.com, you'll then see that there weren't that many exploits against these servers. Whenever we felt like installing some Unix software, a single recompilation of the Linux sources was usually enough (ah... PHP/FI in 1996:-). SCO was also a sequel to Xenix. You could say whatever against Xenix but it was IIRP the first Unix ported to 68000/8086. At these times, this sounded like a miracle. You could also argue about Microsoft's ownership... Well, even though most of us agree on some of their products, we also have to admit that they finally helped a lot and maybe even Linux would not have come on PC if it had not had this inspiration. Finally, I also have a cultural issue about this : Unix was originately meant to be a standard, not only a single OS. Losing one of its flavours might not sound that nice according to this point of view. --
IMHO, TLD are not a definitive thing. They were historically aimed at distributing the domains names resolution among several servers. I believe that not too far from now (perhaps even before "Saint Ignucius" gets his.gnu TLD...) these will belong to history and anybody will have the possibility to own a domain like "Mirko's web page". Of course, I might be wrong but I definitively think that Internet will finally be international once it has got rid of these TLD. Cheers PS: There should be rules against domains names batch resellers... When I registered eqrd.net, I saw that most eqXX.[net¦org¦com] were bought by a Colombian company... --
The advantage of having to "physically" go to vote is that we deliberately stand up from a computer, a tv set or whatever and we go in a neutral looking place to get properly identified and to put a chosen piece of paper in a box. E-Vote suppress all these and make voting as easy as randomly clicking links on the Internet. If voting is a social act, then one should vote phisycally or not at all. So, yes, I understand that it is technically interesting but IMHO this is not according to the original voting concept as invented millenia ago and this is and should stay a curiosity rather than a socially-obstructive way of life. --
I once heard about some Dead Sea bacteries on which some data preservation experiments were successfully done. By feeding these with some specific low-frequency light rays, one could "store" some bits of information in these. The fact is that these bacteries are able to live hundreds of thousands of years and using many of these could be a good way to store data. No, once again there are problems:
What if everybody starts its own bio-culture? Wouldn't this cause some ecological problems by breaking an existing equilibrium?
If data can survive for millenia, will there still be whatever needed to read it again after that time?
And now, suppose that this has already been done a long long time ago on either Earth or any other place. How long will it take before we guess that somebody once left a message in, say... organic mollecules? Now, even worse: If at this time people usually encoded their data a really nasty way (like we are starting to do at these times with RSAA, PGP, encoded JPEG, MP3, DVD, etc.), how will we even be close to decoding it? --
You could also mention the CDs. For example, some CDRs that I burnt 4 years ago can't be read anymore though I only used them a few times. But the worse is that I am not even worried because the information I saved this way also became obsolete :
0.99v13 version of Linux
Pre-1 JDK
Old versions of ARChimedes games that don't run anymore on StrongARM'ed RiscPC.
ARM and Unix FAQs
etc.
I'll just have to find a way to preserve my own music, though... Maybe on tape ?:-( --
At least this is the first step towards an arrange
on
Embedding Ads In MP3s?
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· Score: 1
OK, ad = caca. Period. Anyway, seeing that the labels are now accepting the idea of not taking any money from a customer is a good thing. Of course, there'll soon (or late) be ads removers, unless they are too complexly encoded in the song. "Too complexly" ? Ditto: This is a billion-buck market. Any executive involved in this project will agree on giving caviar too some mathematics genious until he invents so Gordian a knot that themselves even won't be able to break them.
Anyway the hidden word here is "compromise". It means that if you accept the ads, that you usually accept on the radio, then you can listen to anything you wish. Now, we have to see how long, loud and disturbing these ads are gonna be... Which is another story. --
Hi, I remember hearing about the same problem in the beginning of the AGP era. This is not only a matter of technology but also of driver, ROM/BIOS routine, etc. This problem might disappear as soon as some "tuning" is done.
BTW, benchmarks usually involve some very specific tests where some low-level aspects are considered more important than ones related to ergonomy : user comfort, etc. This could be a good thing to know what they actually found. --
It's a pity they didn't give much details on this instrument's tessiture (don't know the right word in English but it should be something meaning "Number of octaves that could be reached") and also max tempo. The samples I heard in MP3 didn't really demonstrate a "quick" and versatile instrument, that's why I wonder whether this is more a technical curiosity or a real musical instrument. --
In France we have a law that prevents individual data collection without a prior administrative/official declaration. The same law also gives one the possibility to be taken out of such files. So, my question is : if some data concerning me were in this file, and if if cared, could I just contact them to get these erased ? --
"Thanks to XXX's YYY technology, you won't be bothered by your phone wherever you are not expected to use it..."
"Be smart! Show yours but don't show you can't use it !"
"Winners pays for this, Losers can't even pay to have this kind of modern problem."
BTW, I have to apologize for the last one: Being sysadmin, I didn't pay for it and it's really pissing me off. I believe I'll soon have a clue in my contract forbiding me to disable it... --
Slashdot Mirror
Now, if Sun...
- realize that they are about to lose more cash with SO than they expected to make
- still wants to gain market shares
- and still wants to piss off Kro$oft
Then, as this is not their baby, they will easily get rid of it.BTW, could we expect some GPL'ed Swing-like toolkit for Guavac/Kaffe, one of these days ?
--
It seems you have not been lucky with your hardware.
I personally have 2 pc.
One is equipped with an ATI AIW128 card (previously with an Xpert98) and my laptop has a Rage Pro 3D LT inside.
All of them run perfectly but I admit I had once to send an email to support@atitech.ca in order to receive (3 days later) a brand new CD including Cinemaster in my mailbox. this was about a TV Tuner problem... Nothing *that* serious regarding my absolute TV non-addiction.
I am also really happy with one important thing regarding ATI: they respect the colors (sound like a soap ad but I mean it).
Take a Voodoo, it'll be "too green", a Matrox won't produce a "dark black" and a Geforce has some "extra yellow".
This is the reason Apple mostly uses these cards in their Mac which are, IIRP, the graphists' machines.
Au revoir.
--
- Let's make a search engine that looks for the highest prices around.
- Give it a nice interface.
- Now, add the possibility to reverse sort the data.
Could they attack you for this?Alternative way:
- Ask for a Chinese cousin to set a low-prices search engine in his country.
- Now, only browse his results and publish them on line.
Will you be sued?Something in Internet is stronger than multinational lawyers: It is international. If you can establish a tax-free copmpany somewhere, you should also be able to set up a web server in a lawyer-free country, shouldn't you ?
--
I prefer having no browser at all than having it and knowing that every time I'd get tempted to do something that could be non-work-related, not only the computer:
- will offer it to me before I reasonably decide to do it later (and thus open the related piece of software)
- but also he'll just report this to some executive (who'll just consider it as a misbehavior instead of judging the results he should actually expect from me)?
Now, let's dream a bit further about this and imagine yourself suspiciously staring at the ICQ icon like you'd look at a Damocles sword ?No doubt, MS-Big-Bro will just interpret this as a desire an it won't be long before it opens it.
This is for such (edulcorated, though) reasons that most of my colleagues use their own laptops for personal (mentally healthy) use, as here, any URL containing the words "forum" or "message" is forbidden.
--
(End of summary, you should now go there...)
Slashdotter's version: What are your executives afraid of?
Officially, that somebody would copy their technology if they put some code in the GPL?
If this is *that* revolutionary, then they could easily check that nobody copies them by scaning the concurrents' drivers.
Remember when Quake source code was stolen from crackdotcom's server, Carmack just said that nobody could use it for a new product, as there'd be no problem to have a lawyer demonstrating this copyright infringment.
IMHO, they might just fear that someone just points out that, despite the marketing guys' buzzwords, they just released a bunch of (ISO9k'ed, of course) crap, in which case it'd be better not to release any source code.
You only take one risk if you release something: Some hacker might just make it *far* better, which is gonna sell a lot of pieces of hardware.
--
...then this is not a secret.
In France we have an expression to describe all these hoaxes: "Secret de Polichinelle".
This basically mean that we know the thing and we got so used to it than even making it official doesn't make us care.
I have heard about cellular phones emissions for years. I am sure of one thing that is important and that the study won't even mention: Cellular phones' radiation make people associal.
Don't believe me?
Ever sat next to a gossiper in the sub/train/plane/bus? Ever been interrupted while (c*e*n*s*o*r*e*d)? (and always the same excuse: "oups, my handy, this could be important").
The only positive thing about demonstrating some handy related cancer hazards could be to make people use these phones less spontaneously.... Like "thinking first"
It would be that fantastic if we could finally get actual information on others things that we are not used to be suspicious about.
BTW, making a story about future announces from somebody just sounds like one of Bill's inventions (according to its "secret diary" : the pre-announce.)
Is Slashdot looking forward to be part of the sensation press?
--
Napster ?
Hollywood ?
Could be some sort of streaming media company aimed at interactive digital broadcasting...
Sounds Deja-vu.
I mean, this is so buzzworded that it would really be interesting if there were sufficient hype 'round this to democratize Internet/Radio/TV, this time.
Of course, this'd imply more bandwidth, cheaper stuff but also... pity... a deeper supermarketization of the Net.
--
I agree with most people here by saying that it is a good thing to have StarOffice GPLed...
The name Starzilla comes to my mind, which means, to become a perfect product... later.
But, if I encourage people to honour this initiative, I won't personnally use it.
I don't like the idea of using a XXXMo program suite to type a letter.
As of Yet, I use GNUmeric and ABIsuite.
Not the lightest but at least they do the job.
I think there is a design problem in most office suites today which is related to their integration level.
I mean integrating software components together over a software integrator (Gnome, windows, etc) sounds a bit redundant to me.
I just hope that Starzilla will look more like a Lego set than a menhir.
--
Hi, munificent Slashdot moderator. .sex TLD. :-( ). .sex TLD and only this one then this could made most people searches even easier. .edu and .sex than between .com and .shop.
Thou might have made a wrong choice by classifying this message's parent as a troll/flamebait,etc (hence giving i the 0 it IMHO didn't desserves).
If there no actual TLDs have now been defined then Anonymous Cowards didn't have a bad idea by suggesting the
I have been surfing the web since 1990 an I saw more and more sex domains appearing amongst my Altavista search results.
Imagine yourself finding some bizarre porno-nazi area while looking for some specs concerning SMP Alpha systems (this happens more than one'd expect
If one could convince the pornographs to use the
For lotta people, the Internet is still a library, not a shopping-mall nor a sexodrome.
TLD were originately aimed at allowing a basic web sites classification that would have overidden acronyms (caca.edu would be a education-related site, not a scat one ), we should look deeper into it and IMHO this is far more important to distinguish between
Bye.
--
I was willing to bring some accuracy rather than just "bicker" (whaddazitmeaninbloodyfrench ?) you. :
So, please, don't take it wrong, the way you said it was confusing to me
> Yet their footprint is incredibly small.
I think here that you meant Photon's which *is* that small. QNX'X is small but not exageratedly.
> Check out the QNX website for a demo http://www.qnx.com).
> A dialer and a graphical web browser all on a floppy disk?!
IIRC, the demo doesn't feature X but only Photon.
Bye.
--
Sorry but QNX's preferred graphical engine is not X, it is Photon.
There is an X port but it is based on X11R5 rather than X11R6.
I suggest you made a quick visit to this page in order to investigate both of these.
--
What about Mozilla ? I believe that once up and running (IE not so far from today for the running version I have installed with the SuSe 6.4) this could be a *very* good thing for "alternatists".
If this is not enough, then I'd also bet on Wine, Amaya or, simply the Java browser.
Of course, if people worked more on an easy-to-integrate platform then with a solid browser engine and lots of external components we could do marvels, like in Acorn RiscOS !Browse or !Oregano...
Remember that IBM recently got involved in delivering Linux freaks a promising JDK1.3.
So, just encourage Mozilla developper whatever your way (test, code, design, art, ideas, or just love letters) and I'm sure they will b so happy we'll finally have a browser as good as Gimp is in his own software category.
--
Oups, I forgot a detail :
It is obvious that this suggestion only applies to commercial music as there should *not* be any embedded ad in free music at all.
--
I call this "terrorism" not because this is *that* frightening.
This is legitimate for somebody to protest against whatever he feels contestable.
This way is not the most efficient ever as it would not be systematical, according to the number of songs that are currently available via Napster which "recipients" will just attempt to download another copy of the concerned song, hoping this would not be spoiled.
No, let's try being constructive:
Anyway if people argue that they use Napster like an intelligent radio (which allow them to chose whichever song and which, as a radio, let them record these - digitally onto their computer in this case) then a good issue would be to ask Napster to embed (on the fly) small ads at the beginning of the downloaded songs so that the perceived ad fee would just go to whoever claims he desserves it.
I'd personally accept this kind of counterpart if I could anyway listen to the music I like.
As a musician, I'd also consider it a better proof of my interest in my listeners than just intending to demonstrate them I don't need them.
--
SQRT(21^2+16.5^2)
This makes a 70cm diag. screen (26.7 inch monitor).
If this can sound good to play Civilization (is the refresh quick enough for Quake ?), this is just a little slow to watch DVD.
What about its consummation, especially compared to previous laptops ?
Do IBM intend to make big (I mean tall, not necessarily revolutionary) laptop using these ?
--
I don't like to see SCO's end. :-).
I used to work with their Unix some years ago and I have to admit that, despite its relative lack of user friendship(*), it was doing its job fairly well.
(*I mean the lack of tools, not the lack of configurability which was definitively approaching most other Unixes on the market)
For example, you should take a look to RootShell.com, you'll then see that there weren't that many exploits against these servers. Whenever we felt like installing some Unix software, a single recompilation of the Linux sources was usually enough (ah... PHP/FI in 1996
SCO was also a sequel to Xenix.
You could say whatever against Xenix but it was IIRP the first Unix ported to 68000/8086. At these times, this sounded like a miracle.
You could also argue about Microsoft's ownership... Well, even though most of us agree on some of their products, we also have to admit that they finally helped a lot and maybe even Linux would not have come on PC if it had not had this inspiration.
Finally, I also have a cultural issue about this : Unix was originately meant to be a standard, not only a single OS. Losing one of its flavours might not sound that nice according to this point of view.
--
IMHO, TLD are not a definitive thing. .gnu TLD...) these will belong to history and anybody will have the possibility to own a domain like "Mirko's web page".
They were historically aimed at distributing the domains names resolution among several servers.
I believe that not too far from now (perhaps even before "Saint Ignucius" gets his
Of course, I might be wrong but I definitively think that Internet will finally be international once it has got rid of these TLD.
Cheers
PS: There should be rules against domains names batch resellers... When I registered eqrd.net, I saw that most eqXX.[net¦org¦com] were bought by a Colombian company...
--
The advantage of having to "physically" go to vote is that we deliberately stand up from a computer, a tv set or whatever and we go in a neutral looking place to get properly identified and to put a chosen piece of paper in a box.
E-Vote suppress all these and make voting as easy as randomly clicking links on the Internet.
If voting is a social act, then one should vote phisycally or not at all.
So, yes, I understand that it is technically interesting but IMHO this is not according to the original voting concept as invented millenia ago and this is and should stay a curiosity rather than a socially-obstructive way of life.
--
By feeding these with some specific low-frequency light rays, one could "store" some bits of information in these.
The fact is that these bacteries are able to live hundreds of thousands of years and using many of these could be a good way to store data.
No, once again there are problems:
- What if everybody starts its own bio-culture? Wouldn't this cause some ecological problems by breaking an existing equilibrium?
- If data can survive for millenia, will there still be whatever needed to read it again after that time?
And now, suppose that this has already been done a long long time ago on either Earth or any other place. How long will it take before we guess that somebody once left a message in, say... organic mollecules?Now, even worse: If at this time people usually encoded their data a really nasty way (like we are starting to do at these times with RSAA, PGP, encoded JPEG, MP3, DVD, etc.), how will we even be close to decoding it?
--
For example, some CDRs that I burnt 4 years ago can't be read anymore though I only used them a few times.
But the worse is that I am not even worried because the information I saved this way also became obsolete :
- 0.99v13 version of Linux
- Pre-1 JDK
- Old versions of ARChimedes games that don't run anymore on StrongARM'ed RiscPC.
- ARM and Unix FAQs
- etc.
I'll just have to find a way to preserve my own music, though...Maybe on tape ?
--
OK, ad = caca. Period.
Anyway, seeing that the labels are now accepting the idea of not taking any money from a customer is a good thing.
Of course, there'll soon (or late) be ads removers, unless they are too complexly encoded in the song.
"Too complexly" ?
Ditto: This is a billion-buck market.
Any executive involved in this project will agree on giving caviar too some mathematics genious until he invents so Gordian a knot that themselves even won't be able to break them.
Anyway the hidden word here is "compromise".
It means that if you accept the ads, that you usually accept on the radio, then you can listen to anything you wish.
Now, we have to see how long, loud and disturbing these ads are gonna be... Which is another story.
--
Hi,
I remember hearing about the same problem in the beginning of the AGP era.
This is not only a matter of technology but also of driver, ROM/BIOS routine, etc.
This problem might disappear as soon as some "tuning" is done.
BTW, benchmarks usually involve some very specific tests where some low-level aspects are considered more important than ones related to ergonomy : user comfort, etc.
This could be a good thing to know what they actually found.
--
It's a pity they didn't give much details on this instrument's tessiture (don't know the right word in English but it should be something meaning "Number of octaves that could be reached") and also max tempo.
The samples I heard in MP3 didn't really demonstrate a "quick" and versatile instrument, that's why I wonder whether this is more a technical curiosity or a real musical instrument.
--
In France we have a law that prevents individual data collection without a prior administrative/official declaration.
The same law also gives one the possibility to be taken out of such files.
So, my question is : if some data concerning me were in this file, and if if cared, could I just contact them to get these erased ?
--
- "Thanks to XXX's YYY technology, you won't be bothered by your phone wherever you are not expected to use it..."
- "Be smart! Show yours but don't show you can't use it !"
- "Winners pays for this, Losers can't even pay to have this kind of modern problem."
BTW, I have to apologize for the last one: Being sysadmin, I didn't pay for it and it's really pissing me off.I believe I'll soon have a clue in my contract forbiding me to disable it...
--