The Ogg Vorbis people have done THOROUGH research to insure that Ogg Vorbis does not infringe on any credible patent claims. Not to say that it won't stop a lawsuit, but the specifics of encoding/decoding ARE different from the MP3 patents, for example.
For that matter, you can have braces with python too (they are commented braces, and are strictly optional)
There is a tool that comes with it (can't remember the name) that converts source back and forth, so that you can use python in non whitespace preserving environments.
Oh, it's called "pindent", and it looks like it uses 'end' statements rather than #{ or #} like I remember. Oh well, it can be changed easily...
Everything is not based on faith... Take my word for it.
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It may depend on whether they release it with 2.4 as the default (or at least officially supported) kernel. It may also depend on whether gcc 3.0 is available (and reasonably trusted) by the time of release. If both of these things happen, they will almost certainly call it 8.0 (I would guess).
In fact, the original release had footage from The Shining added to the very end (the mountains), and the director's cut had a unicorn scene made for Legend, another Ridley Scott movie full of fantasy creatures.
Actually, the rate cap only applies to what the utilities can charge customers. Thus, power providers can charge whatever they want (ie. free market price) and the utilities must absorb the loss if this price is greater than the cap. Which is why they may go "bankrupt". The problem is not that the providers have to sell below cost, it is that they have to sell on credit, with the expectation that they may NEVER get paid if the utilities go bankrupt.
Of course, even this is a gross overgeneralization of a very politicized system.
As a vegetarian, the thought of rennet coming from E. Coli rather than cow stomachs is actually more comforting. Why? I don't know; probably because I grew up as a rancher, and memories of the slaughter house contributed to my being vegetarian. FWIW.
Also GTK+ has the added benifit of being GTK.. It would be pritty easy to port GTK code to GTK plus (and visa versa)
Ummmm, my understanding is that there really isn't a "GTK" (the original Gimp toolkit, which really isn't around any more). "GTK+" refers to the current Gimp toolkit that is in use by Gimp, Gnome, etc. It is based on the C language.
"GTK--" is the version with C++ bindings, if that is what you meant. When people say "GTK" these days, they most likely mean "GTK+".
I imagine at Stanford you'd be welcomed with open arms, and not second guessed.
As a Stanford graduate student, I would say, sadly, that that is not true. Certainly at the graduate level, at least, and probably at the undergraduate as well. People may be accepting once a person has demonstrated competence, but like the original poster hypothesis (and demonstrated for his particular case), a black student is likely to have a "prooving" period that the Asian student, for example, may not be subjected to. This is based only on my personal observations and gut feeling, of course, as I've never discussed it with the black students in any of my engineering classes.
In fact, at Stanford Graduate engineering schools, american students seem to be the minority. These days, most of the students come from countries other than the U.S. I'd say (as a guess) roughly 75% of the students are from China, Taiwan, India, Isreal, Europe, etc. The few black students I have met personally are from African countries, not the U.S. I've been in classes of 30 or more students, where I was the ONLY U.S. student!
I point his out to show that at some schools at least, it is hard to make comparisons of student population ethnicities, withn the surrounding workplace. I assume, with the economy around here being so good, many U.S. students are NOT going to graduate school (since they can make lots of money anyway); the undergrad populations seems to have many more U.S students.
Anyway, my point is that I'd have to agree with the original poster; black students are a minority here, and accepting one as an equal in a group project, for example, won't be as automatic as, say, another asian student.
In fact, as another anecdotal data point, having traveled to South East Asia, and growing up in areas of large asian populations (Hawaii and the Bay Area), I can say that many asians have severe prejudices towards blacks (sorry for the flamebait; my comment implies mainly those who are non-U.S. born). In Thailand, I was asked a couple times by locals I met if black people are all violent, poor, etc. (in the U.S.), or whether I was afraid to live with black people. It seems that having only the U.S. media to go on, that is what many of them perceive. Ironically, that was just before Mike Tyson bit Evander's ear, and it was splashed across the papers throughout the world. I can assume some of these attitudes carry over with all the non-U.S. students (even though they are, without question, extremely intelligent and well educated)
The absentee ballot count shifted the CA vote further in favor of Gore (contrary to what Republicans had been hoping). I don't know how many were counted before certification, though.
I don't know if MATLAB has important features yet to be implemented in free software-- but I have to agree that numerical computation stuff isn't exactly the hardest thing to code up.
Wow, that is one of the most wrong headed statements I've heard in a while. If you don't believe that, then code up an efficient way of computing eigenvalues for a large, sparse, ill-conditioned matrix (hint: you'll want to do a lot of reading on the subject). Numerical Computation is not an easy field, and shouldn't be dismissed as such so easily. The algorithms in MATLAB and Octave have decades of refinement.
Or maybe they have a patent on "A method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage.
Well according to this patent, obtained by Thompson for his "invention", that may be exactly what they claim. The patent would seem to cover any audio compression method that converts from time domain to frequency domain, does quantization, then entropy coding.
The other Fraunhofer patent is at least a bit more focused, and specifies a breakdown into frequency groups, followed by quantization, then compression. The Ogg Vorbis scheme avoids the first stage of prefiltering into smaller frequency bands, and does the transform in one feel swoop. This requires more work for the transform, but arguably gives better results.
In short, the first patent I mentioned seems difficult to defend against, unless it can be shown to be overly broad or invalid. The second is exactly what Ogg Vorbis was avoiding.
No, if you MUST show your kids this movie (which I won't necessarily dispute) you should do it at your OWN FUCKIN' HOUSE. Period. As it was, I had to listen to upset kids being disruptive while I was at the movies, because their parents were inconsiderate asses. The only lesson the kids learned, was that there are no repercussions for being an asshole.
By watching it at home, a parent can better monitor their kids reactions, and possibly stop it to answer questions, etc. I DOUBT a six year old is prepared to handle all the ramifications of Saving Private Ryan, but if they want to leave a movie theater, and are crying, and their parent doesn't remove them from the theater, then that is abuse. Of ME!
Yeah, why don't we just cut out the middle man and have little Billy watch Saving Private Ryan instead?
I saw Saving Private Ryan twice in the theatre, and both times was appalled to see that parents had brought their young kids when it was clearly inappropriate (One was an infant who cried during each battle, and there were young kids who got very upset at the beginning, etc.) In fact, when I saw the re-release of The Exorcist, some jackass woman had brought her young daughter (maybe 7 or 8 years old), and she CLEARLY wanted to leave, but they made here stay for the whole thing.
The basic point is that there are some (perhaps many) software developers that do NOT want to use Microsoft product, and thus will continue to develop alternatives that are free and have source available. For many developers, the point is not just having apps available, but having apps that they can fix, learn from, extend, etc.
So while it may upset certain proprietary vendors, the free software developers are understandably less concerned with Wine; their goals are not hampered by it.
But this is the difference between encryption and watermarking. If the music were encrypted, it couldn't be played without decryption (everything would sound like white noise). Here, the watermarked music is essentially still in plaintext, and can be played by any program that understands the music format. The watermarking may hide an ID that COULD allow a player to discern information "hidden" in the music, but it doesn't obscure the music itself.
In theory, a closed source player could refuse to play the music, but another program that doesn't check for watermarks would. so the watermarking is really an attempt to track the music, or identify the creator (or the watermarker). It cannot effectively prevent playback without encryption, however.
I'd like to know what happens if additional watermarks are added to an already watermarked piece of music. Do they somehow add linearly, or do they interact destructively, making the watermark useless? Are different watermarking algorithms orthogonal (ie. don't affect each other too badly), or can noise be added to any watermarking scheme (without too badly affecting the signal)? If watermarking is immune to such tampering (which I doubt), it makes sense to try and keep the specific technique secret. However, as many have pointed out, watermarking seems inherently defeatable (assuming you can live with an imperfectly reconstructed signal).
True, but they don't represent the average consumer of the PS/2 (at least not this Christmas). Those who can afford the console, will most likely also be able to afford at least a cheap PC. And I contend that for many, that's a better choice (ie. if they don't already have a PC, and their kids have any affinity for learning about technology, spend the extra bucks:-)
Well, I'd gladly pay for a computer over a console, with the hope that the kid may actually LEARN something if they take an interest in computers, computing, networking, etc.
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The Ogg Vorbis people have done THOROUGH research to insure that Ogg Vorbis does not infringe on any credible patent claims. Not to say that it won't stop a lawsuit, but the specifics of encoding/decoding ARE different from the MP3 patents, for example.
He earlier said "tmp-like permissions", as in any publicly writeable/readable directory...
For that matter, you can have braces with python too (they are commented braces, and are strictly optional)
There is a tool that comes with it (can't remember the name) that converts source back and forth, so that you can use python in non whitespace preserving environments.
Oh, it's called "pindent", and it looks like it uses 'end' statements rather than #{ or #} like I remember. Oh well, it can be changed easily...
Scopes monkey trial. A movie was made of it.
Everything is not based on faith... Take my word for it.
It may depend on whether they release it with 2.4 as the default (or at least officially supported) kernel. It may also depend on whether gcc 3.0 is available (and reasonably trusted) by the time of release. If both of these things happen, they will almost certainly call it 8.0 (I would guess).
The problem is when you decide to loop over all vertices in the polygon to compute the surface normals.
The point is that they could release specifications to the parts that are NOT licensed from others, and allow the community to write the drivers...
[Highlander II re-edit is] TONS better than the unintelligable and bad theatrical release.
You can't shine shit.
Think about it, that doesn't even make sense.
In fact, the original release had footage from The Shining added to the very end (the mountains), and the director's cut had a unicorn scene made for Legend, another Ridley Scott movie full of fantasy creatures.
Actually, the rate cap only applies to what the utilities can charge customers. Thus, power providers can charge whatever they want (ie. free market price) and the utilities must absorb the loss if this price is greater than the cap. Which is why they may go "bankrupt". The problem is not that the providers have to sell below cost, it is that they have to sell on credit, with the expectation that they may NEVER get paid if the utilities go bankrupt.
Of course, even this is a gross overgeneralization of a very politicized system.
As a vegetarian, the thought of rennet coming from E. Coli rather than cow stomachs is actually more comforting. Why? I don't know; probably because I grew up as a rancher, and memories of the slaughter house contributed to my being vegetarian. FWIW.
Interesting and Informative post, BTW.
Then why not make the default glibc strcpy/strcat etc safe?
OpenBSD have addressed this issue. glibc has not yet adopted their solution, although glib is expected to adopt g_strlcat and g_strlcpy in version 2.
http://www.openbsd.com/papers/strlcpy-paper.ps
Ummmm, my understanding is that there really isn't a "GTK" (the original Gimp toolkit, which really isn't around any more). "GTK+" refers to the current Gimp toolkit that is in use by Gimp, Gnome, etc. It is based on the C language.
"GTK--" is the version with C++ bindings, if that is what you meant. When people say "GTK" these days, they most likely mean "GTK+".
As a Stanford graduate student, I would say, sadly, that that is not true. Certainly at the graduate level, at least, and probably at the undergraduate as well. People may be accepting once a person has demonstrated competence, but like the original poster hypothesis (and demonstrated for his particular case), a black student is likely to have a "prooving" period that the Asian student, for example, may not be subjected to. This is based only on my personal observations and gut feeling, of course, as I've never discussed it with the black students in any of my engineering classes.
In fact, at Stanford Graduate engineering schools, american students seem to be the minority. These days, most of the students come from countries other than the U.S. I'd say (as a guess) roughly 75% of the students are from China, Taiwan, India, Isreal, Europe, etc. The few black students I have met personally are from African countries, not the U.S. I've been in classes of 30 or more students, where I was the ONLY U.S. student!
I point his out to show that at some schools at least, it is hard to make comparisons of student population ethnicities, withn the surrounding workplace. I assume, with the economy around here being so good, many U.S. students are NOT going to graduate school (since they can make lots of money anyway); the undergrad populations seems to have many more U.S students.
Anyway, my point is that I'd have to agree with the original poster; black students are a minority here, and accepting one as an equal in a group project, for example, won't be as automatic as, say, another asian student.
In fact, as another anecdotal data point, having traveled to South East Asia, and growing up in areas of large asian populations (Hawaii and the Bay Area), I can say that many asians have severe prejudices towards blacks (sorry for the flamebait; my comment implies mainly those who are non-U.S. born). In Thailand, I was asked a couple times by locals I met if black people are all violent, poor, etc. (in the U.S.), or whether I was afraid to live with black people. It seems that having only the U.S. media to go on, that is what many of them perceive. Ironically, that was just before Mike Tyson bit Evander's ear, and it was splashed across the papers throughout the world. I can assume some of these attitudes carry over with all the non-U.S. students (even though they are, without question, extremely intelligent and well educated)
The absentee ballot count shifted the CA vote further in favor of Gore (contrary to what Republicans had been hoping). I don't know how many were counted before certification, though.
I don't know if MATLAB has important features yet to be implemented in free software-- but I have to agree that numerical computation stuff isn't exactly the hardest thing to code up.
Wow, that is one of the most wrong headed statements I've heard in a while. If you don't believe that, then code up an efficient way of computing eigenvalues for a large, sparse, ill-conditioned matrix (hint: you'll want to do a lot of reading on the subject). Numerical Computation is not an easy field, and shouldn't be dismissed as such so easily. The algorithms in MATLAB and Octave have decades of refinement.
Ogg Vorbis does NOT use Wavelets, it uses MDCT (like MP3, although it empoys it differently from MP3).
Ogg Vorbis has plans to incorporate Wavelet processing at a future date, but doesn't currently.
Or maybe they have a patent on "A method of compressing audio to preserve quality but reduce space usage.
Well according to this patent, obtained by Thompson for his "invention", that may be exactly what they claim. The patent would seem to cover any audio compression method that converts from time domain to frequency domain, does quantization, then entropy coding.
The other Fraunhofer patent is at least a bit more focused, and specifies a breakdown into frequency groups, followed by quantization, then compression. The Ogg Vorbis scheme avoids the first stage of prefiltering into smaller frequency bands, and does the transform in one feel swoop. This requires more work for the transform, but arguably gives better results.
In short, the first patent I mentioned seems difficult to defend against, unless it can be shown to be overly broad or invalid. The second is exactly what Ogg Vorbis was avoiding.
No, if you MUST show your kids this movie (which I won't necessarily dispute) you should do it at your OWN FUCKIN' HOUSE. Period. As it was, I had to listen to upset kids being disruptive while I was at the movies, because their parents were inconsiderate asses. The only lesson the kids learned, was that there are no repercussions for being an asshole.
By watching it at home, a parent can better monitor their kids reactions, and possibly stop it to answer questions, etc. I DOUBT a six year old is prepared to handle all the ramifications of Saving Private Ryan, but if they want to leave a movie theater, and are crying, and their parent doesn't remove them from the theater, then that is abuse. Of ME!
Yeah, why don't we just cut out the middle man and have little Billy watch Saving Private Ryan instead?
I saw Saving Private Ryan twice in the theatre, and both times was appalled to see that parents had brought their young kids when it was clearly inappropriate (One was an infant who cried during each battle, and there were young kids who got very upset at the beginning, etc.) In fact, when I saw the re-release of The Exorcist, some jackass woman had brought her young daughter (maybe 7 or 8 years old), and she CLEARLY wanted to leave, but they made here stay for the whole thing.
Fuckin' awful parents....
The basic point is that there are some (perhaps many) software developers that do NOT want to use Microsoft product, and thus will continue to develop alternatives that are free and have source available. For many developers, the point is not just having apps available, but having apps that they can fix, learn from, extend, etc.
So while it may upset certain proprietary vendors, the free software developers are understandably less concerned with Wine; their goals are not hampered by it.
But this is the difference between encryption and watermarking. If the music were encrypted, it couldn't be played without decryption (everything would sound like white noise). Here, the watermarked music is essentially still in plaintext, and can be played by any program that understands the music format. The watermarking may hide an ID that COULD allow a player to discern information "hidden" in the music, but it doesn't obscure the music itself.
In theory, a closed source player could refuse to play the music, but another program that doesn't check for watermarks would. so the watermarking is really an attempt to track the music, or identify the creator (or the watermarker). It cannot effectively prevent playback without encryption, however.
I'd like to know what happens if additional watermarks are added to an already watermarked piece of music. Do they somehow add linearly, or do they interact destructively, making the watermark useless? Are different watermarking algorithms orthogonal (ie. don't affect each other too badly), or can noise be added to any watermarking scheme (without too badly affecting the signal)? If watermarking is immune to such tampering (which I doubt), it makes sense to try and keep the specific technique secret. However, as many have pointed out, watermarking seems inherently defeatable (assuming you can live with an imperfectly reconstructed signal).
True, but they don't represent the average consumer of the PS/2 (at least not this Christmas). Those who can afford the console, will most likely also be able to afford at least a cheap PC. And I contend that for many, that's a better choice (ie. if they don't already have a PC, and their kids have any affinity for learning about technology, spend the extra bucks :-)
Well, I'd gladly pay for a computer over a console, with the hope that the kid may actually LEARN something if they take an interest in computers, computing, networking, etc.