The kernel is called xnu. The Darwin operating system (like most *BSD distributions) is comparable to what RMS and Debian call GNU-Linux. MacOSX uses a fork of Darwin-- there isn't a one to one correspondence between a Darwin release and a MacOSX release-- and adds further libraries and services, Carbon, Cocoa, and Quartz being the three most famous.
It's perfectly legal to reedit films you own-- first sale rights and all that. The distribution of such edits is where it gets thorny. An editing list is, to a certain extent, derived from the original DVD/video tape...
Monty Python tried to use trademark law to prevent ABC from re-editing the Flying Circus, on the grounds that their reputation in America would be damaged by an editing hack job. ABC claimed that the BBC had given them permission to do so, and MP had given certain redistribution rights to he BBC, so a copyright infringement case was not feasible. But the court said that the Lanham Act could not be used to inject moral rights into copyright.
My own personal feeling is that the directorial intent should be primary. The judgment that certain scenes and bits of dialogue serve no purpose other than to "change the rating from 'G' to 'PG'" is itself an artistic judgment.
(And in cases where an artistic vision can be recognized in a film, it most commonly lies with the director.) The DGA believes it has a certain stake in this "autuer theory"-- thus the threats of lawsuits.
Don't confuse the DGA (which is (at least publically) stridently anti-censorship) with the MPAA (which itself rates/censors films).
1. SACDs don't store data using 96KHz/24bit PCM. They use 2.82/1 bit Direct Stream Digital. (PCM records a 24 bit volume sample, 96000 times a second. A Direct Stream Digital recording simply indicates whether the sound should be louder or softer than before. DSD is also (generically) known as pulse width modulation.
Think of sending directions to a plotting device. One method (PCM) should say (0,0),(pi/2, 1), (pi, 0), (3pi/2, -1), (2pi, 0). The DSD way says up,down,down,up...
There are a number of supposed benefits to recording using Direct Stream Digital, but it's difficult to edit without converting first to PCM. Many DVD-Audio players limit the resolution of the S/PDIF output to 48 KHz.
The Sharp DX -SX1 SACD player has digital output (admttedly its proprietary, but so what? Most DACS can't decode PWM)...
Travis Daub notes of his download of Moby's "We are all made of Stars" "It was just 20 seconds of the song, repeated over and over," (from the Wash Post article)
Actually, that's the whole song.
" people they come together people they fall apart no one can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars "
Nvidia writes their own Linux Driver. I'm using it, and it works great.
Yes, but are you downloading textures/frames from the card to main memory?
The issue here is whether it is possible to use the programmable GPU to render frames for use in animation projects. The various bandwidth problems appear to be associated with drivers optimized for immediate display.
With an open source driver, the few individuals running linux based rendering farms could, theoretically, relieve the CPU of some of its load. With closed source drivers, you will have to rely on nVidia optimizing their drivers for this kind of minority application.
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Gambler's Inc. In California, gamblers bet against each other, not the house. The casino makes its money by charging a betting fee of 1%. Because the professional gamblers place many bets and attract other players, they are welcomed by the (California) casinos.
_However_, when it comes to the FBI demanding book histories from stores like Borders, they can bugger off until they get a warrant.
How ironic, bookstores such as Borders are more likely to keep exactly the type of records, the FBI thinks it needs. Libraries, by way of contrast, really have no need to keep copious customer data profiles, and might even consider it unethical to do so.
The FBI can piss off. They don't need warrants to view reading records. They don't need to prosecute individuals based on their choice of reading material.
The RIAA claims that a CD that scaled to the CPI between 1983 and 1996 would cost $33.86 1996 dollars. (The CPI rose nearly 60 % during this period.)
This means that the price of a CD was about $20 in 1983. (I don't know what kind of music the RIAA listens to, but the CDs I'm interested in do not sell for $12.75. Does $17.99 ring a bell?). Of course the CD was sold as a premium item, rather akin to what SACD and DVD audio are today. Perhaps we should compare the price of vinyl in 1983 to the price of CDs in 2002.
But 26,000,000 / -2 = -13,000,000 26,000,000 / -1 = -26,000,000 26,000,000 / -0.1 = -260,000,000 26,000,000 / -0.001 = -2,600,000,000 See a trend yet? 26,000,000 / 0 = -infinity.
Since -infinity != infinity, the result is undefined... (But all this assumes that infinity can be manipulated using real arithmetic. It can't. Infinity is outside the set of real numbers -- it is therefore undefined (in the reals))
Yes, complex infinity exists. But I am not versed in Reimannian geometry. Mathworld explains such things better than most slashdotters
Why, do you have performance benchmarks comparing the experimental, non production DeepView with the commercially available InfinitePerformance visualization system?
94371840 KB / 32 KB = 2949120 Seconds = 49152 Hours Ah, that must be the new improved hour, with 60 seconds, instead of the old 3600.
It's actually about 820 hours, assuming that VBR is not used. Perhaps 700-1000 albums, depending on how old the recordings are. Perhaps even fewer, as 128 Kbs is "minimum quality".
IR lasers are used in the low density storage medium known as the Compact Disc. I think DVDS use a yellow laser, and the newer "proposed standard" uses blue. Notice that shorter wavelength correlates with higher density.
BTW, visible spectrum semiconductor lasers were not (AFAIK) available to the designers of the CD.
I work with a MacOSX based package manager called fink. It essentially allows users to automatically download, compile, and install software.
Each package description contains a license field. One such possible value for the field is "OSI-Approved". As fink is frequently used to automate package installations, a shrinkwrap licensing requirement would be most cumbersome, and require extra debugging. We'd have novice package maintainers submitting shrink-licensed packages with "OSI-Approved" designations, but without the logic to handle "shrinkwrap".
The GPL is not a End User License Agreement. EULAs restrict the rights of the End User.
If you want to install emacs on your computer, you don't have to agree to anything. If you want to install Microsoft Word, you are bound by the EULA.
If, however, you want to redistribute emacs or modify the program, you are bound by the GPL. If you want to modify of redistribute Microsoft Word, you may be held liable for civil and criminal penalties.
I suppose if you distributed emacs without source, those same penalties might still apply. The GPL is so much easier...
The industry's most common data-scrambling technique designed to keep out eavesdroppers, called the wireless encryption protocol, can be broken -- usually in less than five minutes -- with software available on the Internet.
WEP actually stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It was intended as a means of ensuring that wireless users could have the same level of privacy as users using a wired network-- not as an secure communications protocol. (Of course, WEP does not even provide that level of "privacy").
Aren't there better privacy/security options available for Wireless devices?
Any asteroid going 300 MPH would most definitely burn up before it reached the atmosphere.
Every American "knows" that the distance from the earth to the sun is 93 million miles. Thus the circumference (or distance to be travelled in the space of a year), is 290 million miles. There are approximately 8765 hours in a year. Thus, the average speed of the earth is omigod....
33000 miles per hour. We're all going to die! In fact, the friction of the earth moving through the vacuum of space (at high speed) must be what's causing this damned heat wave....
Yes, I know I am responding to a troll, but an audiophile has no less than 3 amps. 1 for high end, one for the mid and low woofers, and one for a subwoofer if they are not a purist.
If you're going to use more than one amp, you might as well use one for each channel. Better stereo separation that way.
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heavy research. proven. better. These words imply that you have citations to provide. Provide them.
Of course, you can just drag items out of the dock. They even vanish in a puff of smoke. The System Tray is less configurable, by a long shot.
- preceeds single character flags
e.g.: foo -v
-- preceeds multicharacter flags
e.g.: foo --version
Not all programs (especially X11 stuff) follows this rule, but gnu stuff generally does.
The kernel is called xnu. The Darwin operating system (like most *BSD distributions) is comparable to what RMS and Debian call GNU-Linux. MacOSX uses a fork of Darwin-- there isn't a one to one correspondence between a Darwin release and a MacOSX release-- and adds further libraries and services, Carbon, Cocoa, and Quartz being the three most famous.
It's perfectly legal to reedit films you own-- first sale rights and all that. The distribution of such edits is where it gets thorny. An editing list is, to a certain extent, derived from the original DVD/video tape...
Monty Python tried to use trademark law to prevent ABC from re-editing the Flying Circus, on the grounds that their reputation in America would be damaged by an editing hack job. ABC claimed that the BBC had given them permission to do so, and MP had given certain redistribution rights to he BBC, so a copyright infringement case was not feasible. But the court said that the Lanham Act could not be used to inject moral rights into copyright.
My own personal feeling is that the directorial intent should be primary. The judgment that certain scenes and bits of dialogue serve no purpose other than to "change the rating from 'G' to 'PG'" is itself an artistic judgment.
(And in cases where an artistic vision can be recognized in a film, it most commonly lies with the director.) The DGA believes it has a certain stake in this "autuer theory"-- thus the threats of lawsuits.
Don't confuse the DGA (which is (at least publically) stridently anti-censorship) with the MPAA (which itself rates/censors films).
Yeah, but the US doesn't recognize moral rights, except in certain limited circumstances, mostly related to unique works of art.
2.82 MHz. And of course, my illustration of a sin wav encoded in DSD doesn't take advantage of the greatly enhanced sample rate.
1. SACDs don't store data using 96KHz/24bit PCM. They use 2.82/1 bit Direct Stream Digital. (PCM records a 24 bit volume sample, 96000 times a second. A Direct Stream Digital recording simply indicates whether the sound should be louder or softer than before. DSD is also (generically) known as pulse width modulation.
...
Think of sending directions to a plotting device. One method (PCM) should say (0,0),(pi/2, 1), (pi, 0), (3pi/2, -1), (2pi, 0). The DSD way says up,down,down,up
There are a number of supposed benefits to recording using Direct Stream Digital, but it's difficult to edit without converting first to PCM.
Many DVD-Audio players limit the resolution of the S/PDIF output to 48 KHz.
The Sharp DX -SX1 SACD player has digital output (admttedly its proprietary, but so what? Most DACS can't decode PWM)...
Travis Daub notes of his download of Moby's "We are all made of Stars" "It was just 20 seconds of the song, repeated over and over," (from the Wash Post article)
Actually, that's the whole song.
"
people they come together
people they fall apart
no one can stop us now
'cause we are all made of stars
"
Repeat as desired...
It's a 17th century rural manor house, surrounded by farmland. Pictures an be found here
No furnace room.
No central heating
No concrete.
No easy access to the street.
My parents live in the UK. I live in the US. Our plumbing, electrical and heating infrastructures are very different.
Nvidia writes their own Linux Driver. I'm using it, and it works great.
Yes, but are you downloading textures/frames from the card to main memory?
The issue here is whether it is possible to use the programmable GPU to render frames for use in animation projects. The various bandwidth problems appear to be associated with drivers optimized for immediate display.
With an open source driver, the few individuals running linux based rendering farms could, theoretically, relieve the CPU of some of its load. With closed source drivers, you will have to rely on nVidia optimizing their drivers for this kind of minority application.
Gambler's Inc. In California, gamblers bet against each other, not the house. The casino makes its money by charging a betting fee of 1%. Because the professional gamblers place many bets and attract other players, they are welcomed by the (California) casinos.
_However_, when it comes to the FBI demanding book histories from stores like Borders, they can bugger off until they get a warrant.
How ironic, bookstores such as Borders are more likely to keep exactly the type of records, the FBI thinks it needs. Libraries, by way of contrast, really have no need to keep copious customer data profiles, and might even consider it unethical to do so.
The FBI can piss off. They don't need warrants to view reading records. They don't need to prosecute individuals based on their choice of reading material.
From http://www.filmcentre.co.uk/image.html
Imax, 65mm negative, oriented horizontally, 71mm x 53mm image size
65mm, 65mm negative oriented vertically, 50mm x 27mm image size
35mm, 35mm negative oriented vertically, 24mm x 18mm image size
Super 35 or masked, 35 mm negative orieted vertically, 21mm x 11mm image size.
The RIAA claims that a CD that scaled to the CPI between 1983 and 1996 would cost $33.86 1996 dollars.
(The CPI rose nearly 60 % during this period.)
This means that the price of a CD was about $20 in 1983. (I don't know what kind of music the RIAA listens to, but the CDs I'm interested in do not sell for $12.75. Does $17.99 ring a bell?). Of course the CD was sold as a premium item, rather akin to what SACD and DVD audio are today. Perhaps we should compare the price of vinyl in 1983 to the price of CDs in 2002.
>wrong. 26,000,000 / 2 = 13,000,000 26,000,000 / 1 = 26,000,000 26,000,000 / .1 = 260,000,000 26,000,000 / .001 = 2,600,000,000 See a trend yet? 26,000,000 / 0 = infinity
But 26,000,000 / -2 = -13,000,000 26,000,000 / -1 = -26,000,000 26,000,000 / -0.1 = -260,000,000 26,000,000 / -0.001 = -2,600,000,000 See a trend yet? 26,000,000 / 0 = -infinity.
Since -infinity != infinity, the result is undefined... (But all this assumes that infinity can be manipulated using real arithmetic. It can't. Infinity is outside the set of real numbers -- it is therefore undefined (in the reals))
Yes, complex infinity exists. But I am not versed in Reimannian geometry.
Mathworld explains such things better than most slashdotters
Why, do you have performance benchmarks comparing the experimental, non production DeepView with the commercially available InfinitePerformance visualization system?
94371840 KB / 32 KB = 2949120 Seconds = 49152 Hours
Ah, that must be the new improved hour, with 60 seconds, instead of the old 3600.
It's actually about 820 hours, assuming that VBR is not used. Perhaps 700-1000 albums, depending on how old the recordings are. Perhaps even fewer, as 128 Kbs is "minimum quality".
IR lasers are used in the low density storage medium known as the Compact Disc. I think DVDS use a yellow laser, and the newer "proposed standard" uses blue. Notice that shorter wavelength correlates with higher density.
BTW, visible spectrum semiconductor lasers were not (AFAIK) available to the designers of the CD.
I work with a MacOSX based package manager called fink. It essentially allows users to automatically download, compile, and install software.
Each package description contains a license field. One such possible value for the field is "OSI-Approved". As fink is frequently used to automate package installations, a shrinkwrap licensing requirement would be most cumbersome, and require extra debugging. We'd have novice package maintainers submitting shrink-licensed packages with "OSI-Approved" designations, but without the logic to handle "shrinkwrap".
The GPL is not a End User License Agreement. EULAs restrict the rights of the End User.
If you want to install emacs on your computer, you don't have to agree to anything. If you want to install Microsoft Word, you are bound by the EULA.
If, however, you want to redistribute emacs or modify the program, you are bound by the GPL. If you want to modify of redistribute Microsoft Word, you may be held liable for civil and criminal penalties.
I suppose if you distributed emacs without source, those same penalties might still apply. The GPL is so much easier...
The industry's most common data-scrambling technique designed to keep out eavesdroppers, called the wireless encryption protocol, can be broken -- usually in less than five minutes -- with software available on the Internet.
WEP actually stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It was intended as a means of ensuring that wireless users could have the same level of privacy as users using a wired network-- not as an secure communications protocol. (Of course, WEP does not even provide that level of "privacy").
Aren't there better privacy/security options available for Wireless devices?
It is possible to insert a second 3.5 inch disk into an "occupied" 3.5 floppy drive.
Any asteroid going 300 MPH would most definitely burn up before it reached the atmosphere.
Every American "knows" that the distance from the earth to the sun is 93 million miles. Thus the circumference (or distance to be travelled in the space of a year), is 290 million miles. There are approximately 8765 hours in a year. Thus, the average speed of the earth is omigod....
33000 miles per hour. We're all going to die! In fact, the friction of the earth moving through the vacuum of space (at high speed) must be what's causing this damned heat wave....
Yes, I know I am responding to a troll, but
an audiophile has no less than 3 amps. 1 for high end, one for the mid and low woofers, and one for a subwoofer if they are not a purist.
If you're going to use more than one amp, you might as well use one for each channel. Better stereo separation that way.