22: The method of claim 20, wherein the first operating system is selected from the set consisting of Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. 23: The method of claim 20, wherein the second operating system is selected from the set consisting of Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. 29: The method of claim 24, wherein the machine includes an operating system selected from the set consisting of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. 66: The machine-readable medium of claim 64, wherein the first operating system is selected from the set consisting of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. 67: The machine-readable medium of claim 64, wherein the second operating system is selected from the set consisting of an Apple Macintosh Operating System, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
A classical work, such as a symphony or a concerto is composed of several individual pieces of music called movements-- each of which can stand alone. Want 3 minutes of music? Listen to the Allegro movement of Handel's Organ Concerto No 13? Want 13 minutes? Listen to the whole Concerto-- in order. Want 63 minutes? You can listen to the whole CD-- which includes works by Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, and Albinoni.
A classically friendly shuffle algorithm would respect this intermediate grouping-- and the user wouldn't have to Join tracks. After all, it's not often that 70 minutes are freed up for a full play of Beethoven's 9th.
There are many classical works that are longer than a track, but shorter than a CD. For instance, I have a single CD that groups Beethoven's 5th and 7th Symphonies, together. It would be nice to hear the complete 7th, independent of the 5th. I usually use the Grouping Tag to sort these-- CDDB rarely has the correct data. Composer and Artist are also frequently mixed.
If you live in a major market, you can get ATSC television over the air. The antenna requirements are not that onerous-- sure, a snowy black and white signal will be replaced with a rock-steady "NO-SIGNAL". But a moderately strong signal (fuzz is sometimes visible, colors aren't exactly stable) will often be replaced by a crystal clear. color perfect high definition image with no macroblocking.
Most of primetime television is HD--although there are few stragglers-- cheap-ass reality shows are still filmed with obsolete technology. Fox shows a number of sports events in 480p widescreen, though not the semifinals/championship stuff. The stations in my market have been incrementally replacing Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtracks with DD 5.1 tracks--you've never experienced Late Night Television until you've experienced it with a dedicated LFE channel...
2.35:1 is not unwatchable, especially if you have a constant height setup. Usually this sort of thing involves a 16:9 projector, equipped with an anamorphic lens, and some sort of digital scalar.
I cannot specify that my paintings can't be displayed beside someone else's. That's the prerogative of the purchasor. I also don't paint.
Clearly. Otherwise you might have a passing familiarity with the The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Of all the analogies you could have picked...
However, the scope of general copyright does extend to derivative works. Any production of a derivative work requires a license, unless the derivative use can be shown to be fair. Copyright licenses are often very specific, and often involve the attachment of many strings. For instance, the GNU General Public License requires that derivative works be distributed with source code. The distribution of such derivative works under a different license infringes copyright.
The Internet already allows people to communicate using an classic, information-rich medium known as "ASCII". Try this experiment, sometime. Count the number of words in a a typical TEEVEE presentation of the news. Now pick up a dead tree, and count the number of words allocated to the same subject. Long live text!
It's not "Misuse of Copyright". It's simply copyright. The National Academy of Sciences developed a science based curriculum as a means to improve the general level of scientific literacy in this country. Historically, it has granted copyright licenses to state boards as a means of propagating this standard. Instead of hiring a number of authors to write model lesson plans, classroom experiments and annotated bibliographies, the state board can spend it's time developing state specific addenda ("Agricultural products of Ohio: Soybean and Corn") and republish substantial portions of Pathways with this new material. It saves the board money, time, and effort-- and if things go swimmingly, the National Academy of Sciences will be assured that, at least in that one state, the science is rigorous, up-to-date, and prepares students for undergraduate study.
If, on the other hand, the additional chapters turn out to be stuff on crystal healing, creationism, or integral values of pi, the authors have the right to deny that license.
Yes, the end result is educational, but think of this way: If schools and colleges could gleefully copy anything they wanted, in quantity, then no publisher would dare write materials for the educational market--one copy would be bought-- and hundreds of thousands of copies would be run off at state owned printing plants,..
This is very similar to Linus Torvalds denying a company the right to distribute a modified, binary only copy of the linux kernel.
Curious, I fired up my patent downloader (one of my first Cocoa projects, btw) and examined the tiffs. The last page reads:
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION PATENT NO: 5,224,756 INVENTOR(S): Matthew Dukatz et al.
It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent is hereby corrected as shown below:
On the title page: Item
[73] The assignee should read Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Michigan; Atoma International Inc., Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. [56] The third item listed under FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS should read 2665399 2/1992 European Pat. Off.
The Attorney, Agent, or Firm designated should read Raymond F. Lippitt; Edward P. Barthel.
This interesting little correction is not mentioned in the "full text". Sometimes downloading the imagery is worth it.
Nah, I don't pay attention to commercials. Most are upsampled anyway, which often produces artifacts. As for calibrating displays, you might look here.
I'm getting the strange impression that the HDTV dissenters on/. have not actually seen HDTV, or used an 8VSB tuner.
But we do get OTA broadcasts for free, the converters ain't cheap, and digital television requires a strong signal, which most of us can't get with those $20 rabbit ears.
That's because, at present, most digital channels use UHF. Rabbit ears are really only good for getting VHF stations.
It's TV after all; a bit of entertainment after a hard day at work. I just want to watch the show, not muck around with recordings, having to preview it by editing out commercials first etc. For $2 - I'll pay that!
With the same logic, why spend up to $5 at Starbucks to buy a coffee when I could just buy some beans, grind them myself, brew, froth the milk, and serve for next to nothing?
I think I see a pattern here. You're willing to pay money to Apple/Starbucks so that they can make something of marginal quality.
Whereas, if you had a good grinder, and a half decent espresso machine or even a simple french press, you could make a drink that outstrips Starbucks. Likewise, if you had a few simple tools, you could probably obtain hdtv rips of network shows, Instead, you settle for Apple's cut-rate video or Starbuck's coffee.
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22: The method of claim 20, wherein the first operating system is selected from the set consisting of Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
23: The method of claim 20, wherein the second operating system is selected from the set consisting of Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
29: The method of claim 24, wherein the machine includes an operating system selected from the set consisting of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
66: The machine-readable medium of claim 64, wherein the first operating system is selected from the set consisting of Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
67: The machine-readable medium of claim 64, wherein the second operating system is selected from the set consisting of an Apple Macintosh Operating System, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
You don't understand, do you?
A classical work, such as a symphony or a concerto is composed of several individual pieces of music called movements-- each of which can stand alone.
Want 3 minutes of music?
Listen to the Allegro movement of Handel's Organ Concerto No 13?
Want 13 minutes?
Listen to the whole Concerto-- in order.
Want 63 minutes?
You can listen to the whole CD-- which includes works by Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, and Albinoni.
A classically friendly shuffle algorithm would respect this intermediate grouping-- and the user wouldn't have to Join tracks. After all, it's not often that 70 minutes are freed up for a full play of Beethoven's 9th.
There are many classical works that are longer than a track, but shorter than a CD. For instance, I have a single CD that groups Beethoven's 5th and 7th Symphonies, together. It would be nice to hear the complete 7th, independent of the 5th. I usually use the Grouping Tag to sort these-- CDDB rarely has the correct data. Composer and Artist are also frequently mixed.
Introducing... the iPhone. The first rotary cell phone. From Apple.
It's true! The transcript is online
SSE supports double precision, a big improvement for the scientific market.
Not necessarily. The vector is only wide enough for two doubles. Adding a second floating point core is often more useful.
If you live in a major market, you can get ATSC television over the air. The antenna requirements are not that onerous-- sure, a snowy black and white signal will be replaced with a rock-steady "NO-SIGNAL". But a moderately strong signal (fuzz is sometimes visible, colors aren't exactly stable) will often be replaced by a crystal clear. color perfect high definition image with no macroblocking.
Most of primetime television is HD--although there are few stragglers-- cheap-ass reality shows are still filmed with obsolete technology. Fox shows a number of sports events in 480p widescreen, though not the semifinals/championship stuff. The stations in my market have been incrementally replacing Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtracks with DD 5.1 tracks--you've never experienced Late Night Television until you've experienced it with a dedicated LFE channel...
TURN THAT DOWN OR I'M CALLING THE COPS...
Ahem.
2.35:1 is not unwatchable, especially if you have a constant height setup. Usually this sort of thing involves a 16:9 projector, equipped with an anamorphic lens, and some sort of digital scalar.
Star Wars is a good example of a 2.35:1 film.
I cannot specify that my paintings can't be displayed beside someone else's. That's the prerogative of the purchasor. I also don't paint.
Clearly. Otherwise you might have a passing familiarity with the The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Of all the analogies you could have picked...
However, the scope of general copyright does extend to derivative works. Any production of a derivative work requires a license, unless the derivative use can be shown to be fair. Copyright licenses are often very specific, and often involve the attachment of many strings. For instance, the GNU General Public License requires that derivative works be distributed with source code. The distribution of such derivative works under a different license infringes copyright.
The Internet already allows people to communicate using an classic, information-rich medium known as "ASCII". Try this experiment, sometime. Count the number of words in a a typical TEEVEE presentation of the news. Now pick up a dead tree, and count the number of words allocated to the same subject. Long live text!
It's not "Misuse of Copyright". It's simply copyright. The National Academy of Sciences developed a science based curriculum as a means to improve the general level of scientific literacy in this country. Historically, it has granted copyright licenses to state boards as a means of propagating this standard. Instead of hiring a number of authors to write model lesson plans, classroom experiments and annotated bibliographies, the state board can spend it's time developing state specific addenda ("Agricultural products of Ohio: Soybean and Corn") and republish substantial portions of Pathways with this new material. It saves the board money, time, and effort-- and if things go swimmingly, the National Academy of Sciences will be assured that, at least in that one state, the science is rigorous, up-to-date, and prepares students for undergraduate study.
If, on the other hand, the additional chapters turn out to be stuff on crystal healing, creationism, or integral values of pi, the authors have the right to deny that license.
Yes, the end result is educational, but think of this way: If schools and colleges could gleefully copy anything they wanted, in quantity, then no publisher would dare write materials for the educational market--one copy would be bought-- and hundreds of thousands of copies would be run off at state owned printing plants,..
This is very similar to Linus Torvalds denying a company the right to distribute a modified, binary only copy of the linux kernel.
What useful science has the "Earth Simulator" produced?
You might try reading The Journal of the Earth Simulator.
Or perhaps this summary of 2003 research
The 2005 projects are listed here
This interesting little correction is not mentioned in the "full text". Sometimes downloading the imagery is worth it.
aah. forgot the link
Nah, I don't pay attention to commercials. Most are upsampled anyway, which often produces artifacts. As for calibrating displays, you might look here.
/. have not actually seen HDTV, or used an 8VSB tuner.
I'm getting the strange impression that the HDTV dissenters on
I use a log periodic antenna (Zenith Silver Sensor-- Terk produces a shoddy imitation, so beware). Allegedly, the is even better.
Perhaps you need to connect an antenna.
Oh, so the blacks go coarse and fragment? Fantastic.
Not if you have a properly calibrated set.
In 1948, it was reallocated for users of mobile radio.
But we do get OTA broadcasts for free, the converters ain't cheap, and digital television requires a strong signal, which most of us can't get with those $20 rabbit ears.
That's because, at present, most digital channels use UHF. Rabbit ears are really only good for getting VHF stations.
The new iMac has a built in remote. It's bluetooth remote, though, so it can't be easily ditched for a universal remote.
I think I see a pattern here. You're willing to pay money to Apple/Starbucks so that they can make something of marginal quality.
Whereas, if you had a good grinder, and a half decent espresso machine or even a simple french press, you could make a drink that outstrips Starbucks. Likewise, if you had a few simple tools, you could probably obtain hdtv rips of network shows, Instead, you settle for Apple's cut-rate video or Starbuck's coffee.
But of course one would carbon date such things. They are presumably skeletons of behemoths, and other foul demons destroyed in the Noachian flood....
Now, if slashdot had sourced this story from an Indian publication, the word "lakhbot" might be tripping over our tongues right now. Or, even petibot.
You'd think the Government would have found a replacement by now. It's been, what? Four years?