The reason why those USL copyrights are in OS X is because the code was taken from FreeBSD, which took the code from 4.4BSD-Lite, which had permission to do so from Novell
I do not agree. FreeBSD is allowed to use this code (They had the permission) but Apple is *not*: They don't have the permission, right ? Code rights are still owned by SCO!
Hmm.... Europe certainly doesn't have much of a history of co-operation. World War I and II started in Europe (and the US had to come in and save you guys). Marxism and Nazism both came from Europe and between them resulted in over 100,000,000 deaths (mostly in USSR and China).
Ans so, USA didn't do any war nor kill any people. And I don't talk about Vietnam or Afghanistan. Hiroshima and Nagazaki were also pretty far from europe if my geography serves me well...
The European defence industry is a joke, which is one reason Europe has to call on the US to clean up its problems even today (anybody remember the Kosovo war?).
If the USA wouldn't have come in there I don't think anyone in the EU would have dropped a tear. You *imposed* yourself on this one. Good example of cooperation.
Europeans today seem to imagine that internationial protocols and agreements are all that are necessary to solve the problems of war and aggression. Of course, they had *the same opinion* right up until the start of World War I.
We're guilty of believing in peace. Once again it seems to be a most cooperative attitude.
As far as considering open source, I don't think that is much of a culture clash. There is lots of open source in use in the US. In fact, I would say that companies tend to use what (in their often flawed decision making process) will be best for them.
I don't think companies use what is best for them. I think executives use what is best for them. That's a hell of a difference.
I have worked in Europe and the US, and worked for European companies. The main difference I see is that the European *companies* were more stratified and stultified, and less aggressive.
This one is just true.
The violent crime rate in many countries in Europe is now significantly higher than that in the US. You are far safer walking the streets of New York City than those of London.
But it wasn't true 10 years ago. So what does it proves? It just proves that the crime waves are out of sync.
The European GDP/capita is 2/3 that of the US. Europe is going to be unable to care for its elderly since its population is way below replacement rate.
True, but that's just a matter of time until USA has the same problem.
Let's face it... the reason Europeans are so happy to attack the US today (and these attacks are increasing in the press and here on slashdot) is because Europe used to be the center around which the whole world rotated - militarily, in matters of culture, and economically. Now it is the US, and Europeans have great trouble with that (until they need our help fending off military threats).
Almost true. Military and economically, I agree. Do you think culture is really something the US should be proud of? When the only thing thay are able to export is crappy hollywood movies, McDonalds, Coke and Britney Spears?
But enough Europe bashing.... I just do it because I hear so much America bashing (and ignorant Bush bashing) on here...
Lots of americans are stupid. Lots of european are stupid. I don't believe anyone of the rates to be lower in the US or EU.
But if you live far from any other country, it's a pain... And you always end up buying the hard price sometimes (you know, when you're out of CDs and you really need to burn something)
Blank CD's did reach the (affordable) price of.1Euro when they added this 1Euro tax to it
My english is probably not good enough for you. This sentence means that the CDs were 0.1 Euro a piece at some point and then they added some 1 Euro tax to it. So now a CD is 1.1 Euro a piece.
I'm French and actually the same kind of law passed one year ago. Blank CD's did reach the (affordable) price of.1Euro when they added this 1Euro tax to it. The justification was that these blank media (as well as blank audio tapes for example) was "stealing" money from the music artists.
Most of the backup-related companies heavily based on CD-R media either moved to belgium or switzerland (or anywhere else) or simply got out of business.
Maybe that's some crazy stuff related to french speaking people;-)
Aside from the "classics" (which I'm sure you already read many times), two books in my SF collections did surprise me:
K.W. Jeter - Farewell Horizontal Frederick Pohl - Gateway (I point out this one because the rest of the Heechee saga is not as good) From Frank Herbert
- The Santaroga Barrier
- The Dosadi Experiment (All books)
- Destination Void (All Books, the last one being the less interesting) These three series/books are true gems and that's a shame that Dune's success has hidden them from fame!
I am personally a great fan of Krazy Kat, a comic published in from 1913 to 1936 in the Hearst newspapers and generally considered as one of the greatest comics ever published. Unfortunately, it was not really popular. So it is no wonder that it has never been published since then.
So basically, that means that this comic strip that I love, I have NO WAY of reading it - unless I want to spend all my free time in some museums reading microfilms. And this is really sad.
I have started a project to republish all its content up to 1920 but I cannot go past that date for legal reasons. So what? For of the sake of copyrights these companies have the right to hide and bury very deep some gems of the last century? This should be considered as a crime!
Maybe YOU can see up to 62.7ish redraws a second, and maybe I can see a little more, don't you think ?
By the way, I went to one of these experimental theatres where they were having a movie that was 60fps, and I can tell you, you don't feel the difference, you can SEE it!!
You're actually under the reality for the size of a video at DVD quality. 720*480 pixels make 345600 pixels. at 3 bytes/pixels, it just makes 1036800 (1MB) for one image. Then you have 30 images per second, which makes a second 30MB, a minute 1.8GB, an hour 105GB.
Actually, they will have a lot of problems monitoring these stuff.
Let's just say - for the sake of the example - that they DID monitor everything. Where would they put it ? I don't believe any media could hold more than a few hours of all the transactions made in the US through the internet.
But, ok, let's assume they CAN actually store that. Then they would need 122547855232569851 (approx) men to analyze it. Ok, they can preprocess it through automatic keyword searches. So they would need only 12254133178 people and 22154478215 computers.
Let's face it, if you want to monitor 1,000,000 people, you need at least 100,000 people just to analyze the data. Too much data kill the information. And the NSA is already complaining that all the data they recieve is pretty much useless because of that.
They want to monitor EVERYTHING ? It's like monitoring nothing : Blank Noise vs. no signal
Well, this is not 52X, this is 52X MAX. Just make the calculation:
At 1X, a 700MB CD was burn in 80mins 80/32 = 2.5. There you go. This burner is roughly equivalent to a 32X burner (that doesn't exist though, for vibration problems)
I have a 16X (Yamaha) and it REALLY burns a 700MB CD in 5min...
Yes, but it is so easier to read on a piece of paper than on a screen. Not even mentioning that a good index and some cross references are priceless compared to a man page.
But I agree, a good book should have some added value.
Giving the way you're replying, I am glad this (otherwise stupid) comment was trolled.
America certainly deserve a lot of criticism, but you'll learn (one day) that using too much words such as "dickhead" or "asshole" and yes, even "fuck" removes some credibility to your message. And by the way, Australia is certainly not a perfect country either.
That's life. If you think I'm a moron, then you just didn't realize yet that everyone is one for you.
Then, once, your kid which will have drink too much alcohol last night will try to break into a house "for fun" and will get shot because such a stupid idiot as you lived into the house. Then you'll change your mind. But too late. And the worst of all, I think I WILL be sorry for you.
Good luck in your wonderful country where "irritating" someone too much could lead to a death. Because the problem is here: Where do you set the limit ? Once you'll have had 3 drinks and the postman will get shot because he trespassed on you doorstep. What a pity.
And about your comment, just before pulling the trigger to kill your burglar, make sure it is not one of your friend trying to make a joke, hhmmm ?
That's just what I said. If you need more quality, increase the bitrate. That's what they did for DTS.
Remember that even if the specs specify 320kbps as the MAX for MP3, some encoders can encode with higher bitrates (You'll need a decoder that accept this bitrate, but for archiving, it is just perfect)
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The reason why those USL copyrights are in OS X is because the code was taken from FreeBSD, which took the code from 4.4BSD-Lite, which had permission to do so from Novell
I do not agree. FreeBSD is allowed to use this code (They had the permission) but Apple is *not*: They don't have the permission, right ? Code rights are still owned by SCO!
And they have the rights to do so, because they own the patents/copyrights hypothetically in Linux.
Other distros (let's say Red Hat) violates these patents by distributing Linux. But they don't.
The thing is Java is *not* only a language. It is also the specs for a JVM, something in between a computer and an OS.
I think a processor is not a bad idea for that.
Ok, here is the output for the test I did:
:
$javac -O Test.java
$time java Test
100000000
real 0m10.944s
user 0m9.550s
sys 0m0.130s
$gcc -O3 test.c -o test.o
$time test.o
100000000
real 0m0.483s
user 0m0.470s
sys 0m0.010s
And here are the files used
test.c:
int main(char**argv) {
int j=0;
int i;
for (i=0 ; i<100000000 ; i++) {
j=(i+1-j)*2;
}
printf("%d",i);
}
And Test.java:
public class Test {
public static void main (String args[]) {
int j=0;
int i;
for (i=0 ; i<100000000 ; i++) {
j=(i+1-j)*2;
}
System.out.println(i);
}
}
10 seconds for Java vs 0.5 seconds for C. The JVM takes approx 1/2 second to start. I was actually wrong in the order of magnitude: 20x!!!
Of course the (stupid) test is not really a good benchmark but still!!! 20X!!!
I'll need the output for YOUR test in order to believe it!
I think you might be interested in making a simple test :
int j;
for (int i=0 ; i<1000000 ; i++) {
j=i;
}
and then notice that with any JVM in the market, this code is still 2-3 times slower than the same one compiled with gcc (for example)
So long for the JITs...
Hmm.... Europe certainly doesn't have much of a history of co-operation. World War I and II started in Europe (and the US had to come in and save you guys). Marxism and Nazism both came from Europe and between them resulted in over 100,000,000 deaths (mostly in USSR and China).
Ans so, USA didn't do any war nor kill any people. And I don't talk about Vietnam or Afghanistan. Hiroshima and Nagazaki were also pretty far from europe if my geography serves me well...
The European defence industry is a joke, which is one reason Europe has to call on the US to clean up its problems even today (anybody remember the Kosovo war?).
If the USA wouldn't have come in there I don't think anyone in the EU would have dropped a tear. You *imposed* yourself on this one. Good example of cooperation.
Europeans today seem to imagine that internationial protocols and agreements are all that are necessary to solve the problems of war and aggression. Of course, they had *the same opinion* right up until the start of World War I.
We're guilty of believing in peace. Once again it seems to be a most cooperative attitude.
As far as considering open source, I don't think that is much of a culture clash. There is lots of open source in use in the US. In fact, I would say that companies tend to use what (in their often flawed decision making process) will be best for them.
I don't think companies use what is best for them. I think executives use what is best for them. That's a hell of a difference.
I have worked in Europe and the US, and worked for European companies. The main difference I see is that the European *companies* were more stratified and stultified, and less aggressive.
This one is just true.
The violent crime rate in many countries in Europe is now significantly higher than that in the US. You are far safer walking the streets of New York City than those of London.
But it wasn't true 10 years ago. So what does it proves? It just proves that the crime waves are out of sync.
The European GDP/capita is 2/3 that of the US.
Europe is going to be unable to care for its elderly since its population is way below replacement rate.
True, but that's just a matter of time until USA has the same problem.
Let's face it... the reason Europeans are so happy to attack the US today (and these attacks are increasing in the press and here on slashdot) is because Europe used to be the center around which the whole world rotated - militarily, in matters of culture, and economically. Now it is the US, and Europeans have great trouble with that (until they need our help fending off military threats).
Almost true. Military and economically, I agree. Do you think culture is really something the US should be proud of? When the only thing thay are able to export is crappy hollywood movies, McDonalds, Coke and Britney Spears?
But enough Europe bashing.... I just do it because I hear so much America bashing (and ignorant Bush bashing) on here...
Lots of americans are stupid. Lots of european are stupid. I don't believe anyone of the rates to be lower in the US or EU.
Forget it. You always see these kind of revolutionary stuff for $15 "late this year".
It's just a wording issue: You should read "decade" or "century" where you actually read "year"
That's pretty much what everybody is doing.
But if you live far from any other country, it's a pain... And you always end up buying the hard price sometimes (you know, when you're out of CDs and you really need to burn something)
That's exactly what everybody is doing! But if you live far from any other country it's still painfull...
Blank CD's did reach the (affordable) price of .1Euro when they added this 1Euro tax to it
My english is probably not good enough for you. This sentence means that the CDs were 0.1 Euro a piece at some point and then they added some 1 Euro tax to it. So now a CD is 1.1 Euro a piece.
Is that clear now ?
I'm French and actually the same kind of law passed one year ago. Blank CD's did reach the (affordable) price of .1Euro when they added this 1Euro tax to it. The justification was that these blank media (as well as blank audio tapes for example) was "stealing" money from the music artists.
;-)
Most of the backup-related companies heavily based on CD-R media either moved to belgium or switzerland (or anywhere else) or simply got out of business.
Maybe that's some crazy stuff related to french speaking people
Aside from the "classics" (which I'm sure you already read many times), two books in my SF collections did surprise me :
K.W. Jeter - Farewell Horizontal
Frederick Pohl - Gateway (I point out this one because the rest of the Heechee saga is not as good)
From Frank Herbert
- The Santaroga Barrier
- The Dosadi Experiment (All books)
- Destination Void (All Books, the last one being the less interesting)
These three series/books are true gems and that's a shame that Dune's success has hidden them from fame!
Just for the sake of precision, Little Nemo already is in the public domain (all of it)
I totally agree with that.
I am personally a great fan of Krazy Kat, a comic published in from 1913 to 1936 in the Hearst newspapers and generally considered as one of the greatest comics ever published. Unfortunately, it was not really popular. So it is no wonder that it has never been published since then.
So basically, that means that this comic strip that I love, I have NO WAY of reading it - unless I want to spend all my free time in some museums reading microfilms. And this is really sad.
I have started a project to republish all its content up to 1920 but I cannot go past that date for legal reasons. So what? For of the sake of copyrights these companies have the right to hide and bury very deep some gems of the last century? This should be considered as a crime!
ie show old version then modify words where they differ
Completely untrue. IE shows the old page until the new one is _completely_ loaded. Sometimes.
Maybe YOU can see up to 62.7ish redraws a second, and maybe I can see a little more, don't you think ?
By the way, I went to one of these experimental theatres where they were having a movie that was 60fps, and I can tell you, you don't feel the difference, you can SEE it!!
You're actually under the reality for the size of a video at DVD quality. 720*480 pixels make 345600 pixels. at 3 bytes/pixels, it just makes 1036800 (1MB) for one image. Then you have 30 images per second, which makes a second 30MB, a minute 1.8GB, an hour 105GB.
Ooops, lots of needs for HDD free space here!
Actually, they will have a lot of problems monitoring these stuff.
Let's just say - for the sake of the example - that they DID monitor everything. Where would they put it ? I don't believe any media could hold more than a few hours of all the transactions made in the US through the internet.
But, ok, let's assume they CAN actually store that. Then they would need 122547855232569851 (approx) men to analyze it. Ok, they can preprocess it through automatic keyword searches. So they would need only 12254133178 people and 22154478215 computers.
Let's face it, if you want to monitor 1,000,000 people, you need at least 100,000 people just to analyze the data. Too much data kill the information. And the NSA is already complaining that all the data they recieve is pretty much useless because of that.
They want to monitor EVERYTHING ? It's like monitoring nothing : Blank Noise vs. no signal
Do you remember the time they tried to build their own private internet network ? Was it already named MSN ???
I guess history just repeats itself, as always.
a 52X CLV is not possible. The disc spinning that fast would generate to much vibrations...
That's why CAV is the best answer. Same as Z-CLV without having to stop and resume the burn. But still, this thing is only twiceas fast as my 16X cav
Well, this is not 52X, this is 52X MAX. Just make the calculation :
At 1X, a 700MB CD was burn in 80mins
80/32 = 2.5. There you go. This burner is roughly equivalent to a 32X burner (that doesn't exist though, for vibration problems)
I have a 16X (Yamaha) and it REALLY burns a 700MB CD in 5min...
Yes, but it is so easier to read on a piece of paper than on a screen. Not even mentioning that a good index and some cross references are priceless compared to a man page.
But I agree, a good book should have some added value.
Giving the way you're replying, I am glad this (otherwise stupid) comment was trolled.
America certainly deserve a lot of criticism, but you'll learn (one day) that using too much words such as "dickhead" or "asshole" and yes, even "fuck" removes some credibility to your message. And by the way, Australia is certainly not a perfect country either.
That's life. If you think I'm a moron, then you just didn't realize yet that everyone is one for you.
Then, once, your kid which will have drink too much alcohol last night will try to break into a house "for fun" and will get shot because such a stupid idiot as you lived into the house. Then you'll change your mind. But too late. And the worst of all, I think I WILL be sorry for you.
Good luck in your wonderful country where "irritating" someone too much could lead to a death. Because the problem is here: Where do you set the limit ? Once you'll have had 3 drinks and the postman will get shot because he trespassed on you doorstep. What a pity.
And about your comment, just before pulling the trigger to kill your burglar, make sure it is not one of your friend trying to make a joke, hhmmm ?
That's just what I said. If you need more quality, increase the bitrate. That's what they did for DTS.
Remember that even if the specs specify 320kbps as the MAX for MP3, some encoders can encode with higher bitrates (You'll need a decoder that accept this bitrate, but for archiving, it is just perfect)