Seriously. Musicbrainz was created after the CDDB fiasco (and FreeDB had its own share of problems). It operates under a non-profit organization to guarantee its freedom. And on that feature bullet-point list, they add an API to recognize what that "Unknown Artist - Unknown Title.mp3" file you have.
If I recall some old experimentations, this is quite feasible technically with my good old SBLive and ALSA, by breaking out the outputs as different sound cards in your.asoundrc. Anybody got details?
And yes, I realize having something "techically feasible" is completely different from "work like a charm with the click of a button":)
12. Anything that looks like it was written by drunk lemurs or the French, to be deleted on principle and replaced by something sane.
Monsieur, je suis outré par votre comparaison de mes glorieux compatriotes avec des nobles lémuriens sous influence!
Les lémuriens ne boivent pas de vin, c'est evident: la convoyage de bons crus vers Madagascar pour consommation lemurienne n'est pas economiquement viable!
Sir, I am shocked by your comparison of my glorious compatriots with noble lemurs under the influence!
Lemurs do not drink wine, obviously: transportation of proper wines to Madagascar for consumption by lemurs isn't economically viable!
and that, right there, is basicly why it is a good idea to assign the copyright to a unique entity. Such as, for example, the FSF.
Besides, were you a plaintiff in this suit? Did you make the effort of building the evidence and starting the fight against such a Big Scary Entity as Verizon?
Seriously, give us your part of the story. All of it.
I could connect to ipv6.google.com, but I run IPv6 along IPv6, and I didn't bother checking whether the connection was through IPv5 or IPv6, since, as we have shown, ipv6.google.com has both an A (for IPv) and AAAA (for IPv6) records.
Damn, I managed to mistype every "IPv4" reference. There must be a meaning for this... I meant "IPv4 along IP6" and "through IPv4 or IPv6" and "(for IPv4)"
what are you talking about? The log you posted specifically showed an A record! By default, dig asks for an A record. try 'dig ipv6.google.com AAAA'. I got the following:
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ipv6.google.com. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION: ipv6.google.com. 10642 IN CNAME ipv6.l.google.com. ipv6.l.google.com. 5 IN AAAA 2001:4860:0:1001::68 ipv6.l.google.com. 5 IN AAAA 2001:4860:0:2001::68
I could connect to ipv6.google.com, but I run IPv6 along IPv6, and I didn't bother checking whether the connection was through IPv5 or IPv6, since, as we have shown, ipv6.google.com has both an A (for IPv) and AAAA (for IPv6) records.
Hm, I must be missing something, or all this is in a flux: I don't get an A record anymore, though I got one 5 mins ago.
Flash video (flv) is a container around codecs, like AVI, OGG, and even MPEG is. The codec typically used in Flash is by On2, I believe. I guess Jobs is complaining about Adobe's mobile implementation of the decoder.
However, Adobe recently added support for H.264 in Flash. H.264 is more widespread and there are hardware-accelerated implementations for it in the mobile field. Youtube has started supporting that codec as well (add &fmt=6 at the end of video URL to try, if that video has been converted)
Hell, I worked on a mobile chip which includes MPEG4 and H264 encode/decode acceleration, which has been included in a recently announced Nokia smartphone, and I can confirm that On2 aren't accelerated (and Microsoft's VC1, used in DVB-H, is only partly accelerated), and thus have to run on the ARM core, at the expense of higher power consumption.
And as I said before, the solution is to take back some of those huge class A blocks from companies like HP, Ford and GE, which are not using all the space. That would buy a few years. (emphasis added)
Those are corporations, their goal is to make money. They're sitting on a pile of valuable allocation space. What prevents them from renting them away, just like any other ISP?
When can I have that inertial guidance in my Wiimotes?
It's funny to think that it's basically the same technology, although the wiimote uses MEMS accelerometers instead of high-precision gyroscopes (hence the error is way larger)
Microsoft is the living proof that Marketing > Quality (as if anybody doubted that). They know that their marketing dept is their most important asset, and they can afford to pour cash at them. Hence their marketing people can afford to try out any wacky ideas and see what sticks.
That's the only explanation I can come up for this initiative. Anything else makes me want to obliterate humanity.
I think L Lessig can have more impact from outside Congress, and concentrate on issues he cares about (copyright before, corruption now), rather than waste his time politicking about in Congress on issues he doesn't care about.
Sure, maybe he could have a little more impact working from the inside, but I'm cynically afraid that he'd soon be disgusted and burnt out against the rot in there.
I've been wondering, does there exist hardware accelerators usable by OpenSSL or GnuTLS? I work in embedded systems, and our chip includes a crypto and hash processor. I'm surprised nothing equivalent exists on modern PCs, or have I just not been looking in the right places?
Weren't these designs financed by public funds ? Why could they not be public ? Because it is considered a military secret? It's not because it's a civilian application that it can't still be a military secret (can it?).
I admire RMS' unmoving stance on Free. Will I emulate it? Certainly not. I believe RMS places himself, consciously or not, as a role model. He sits at an extreme of the Free/Proprietary spectrum, and will continuously push and pull in that direction.
For the rest of us who live in the real world and accept compromises to make our lives more comfortable, he's ridiculous. But that's not the point. The point is that he aims for an ideal that won't be attained by everyone, but that can be strived to.
So the fact that his complaints about the non-free wireless is ridiculous to the rest of us, but it does motivate some to provide a free alternative, and that is his objective.
We are talking about the possibility for the manufacturer of the machine to be fraudulous. It can be extended to the manufacturer of the chip. OK, I hadn't understood this as a basic hypothesis. I thought we were talking about trusted hardware, and how to prove that the software running on that hardware was trustworthy as well.
Indeed, if you can't trust the hardware, you're fucked.
How do you get javascript from that?!?!?! Woops, you're right. I misread/.'s domain shortcut, jajcus, for JSJaC.
Regarding doc, I'm didn't mean that you needed to read all the basics down to XML Namespaces or whatever, but I was surprised by your frustration with interacting with XMPP, and interpreted it as a lack of doc for semi-advanced topics. I couldn't believe that PyXMPP wouldn't provide even a basic tutorial on getting online and sending a message. Indeed, I haven't found anything after some quick googling.
If you wish to stick to PyXMPP, you could still have a look at tutorials for those other libraries, which will hopefully provide you with useful background. Good luck!
Didn't understand how to use the library? The problem is, there are a ton of XMPP libraries out there for every language (the one you used is for javascript) and there must be an unwritten agreement that it's no use for each library to re-explain the workings of XMPP...
The best way, I'm afraid, is to read the RFCs (mostly 3920 and 3921. There are updated, clearer drafts, 3920bis and 3921bis, a link away from that page) and XEPs (XMPP Extension Proposal). There's also a book, but I heard that it's a bit outdated.
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Bring fractal cookies.
;)
Also, try asking on the XKCD forums. They're slightly higher-brow than here, judging by the comments I see for now
Use MusicBrainz. All the cool kids are doing it!
Seriously. Musicbrainz was created after the CDDB fiasco (and FreeDB had its own share of problems). It operates under a non-profit organization to guarantee its freedom.
And on that feature bullet-point list, they add an API to recognize what that "Unknown Artist - Unknown Title.mp3" file you have.
It goes like this:
1) Photorealism
2) ???
3) AI!
4) Profit!!!
If I recall some old experimentations, this is quite feasible technically with my good old SBLive and ALSA, by breaking out the outputs as different sound cards in your .asoundrc. Anybody got details?
:)
And yes, I realize having something "techically feasible" is completely different from "work like a charm with the click of a button"
OK, I get it, this year's joke is the ads. I usually have a blind spot for the ads.
...right?
On the articles, 2 times out of 3 I get ads for "Anastasia International.com", Quality Russian Dating Service.
Haha.
that's the joke, right?
Shit, you just gave me my next RGB led project!
Les lémuriens ne boivent pas de vin, c'est evident: la convoyage de bons crus vers Madagascar pour consommation lemurienne n'est pas economiquement viable!
Sir, I am shocked by your comparison of my glorious compatriots with noble lemurs under the influence!
Lemurs do not drink wine, obviously: transportation of proper wines to Madagascar for consumption by lemurs isn't economically viable!
and that, right there, is basicly why it is a good idea to assign the copyright to a unique entity. Such as, for example, the FSF.
Besides, were you a plaintiff in this suit? Did you make the effort of building the evidence and starting the fight against such a Big Scary Entity as Verizon?
Seriously, give us your part of the story. All of it.
Damn, I managed to mistype every "IPv4" reference. There must be a meaning for this...
I meant "IPv4 along IP6" and "through IPv4 or IPv6" and "(for IPv4)"
By default, dig asks for an A record. try 'dig ipv6.google.com AAAA'. I got the following: I could connect to ipv6.google.com, but I run IPv6 along IPv6, and I didn't bother checking whether the connection was through IPv5 or IPv6, since, as we have shown, ipv6.google.com has both an A (for IPv) and AAAA (for IPv6) records.
Hm, I must be missing something, or all this is in a flux: I don't get an A record anymore, though I got one 5 mins ago.
Flash video (flv) is a container around codecs, like AVI, OGG, and even MPEG is. The codec typically used in Flash is by On2, I believe. I guess Jobs is complaining about Adobe's mobile implementation of the decoder.
However, Adobe recently added support for H.264 in Flash. H.264 is more widespread and there are hardware-accelerated implementations for it in the mobile field. Youtube has started supporting that codec as well (add &fmt=6 at the end of video URL to try, if that video has been converted)
Hell, I worked on a mobile chip which includes MPEG4 and H264 encode/decode acceleration, which has been included in a recently announced Nokia smartphone, and I can confirm that On2 aren't accelerated (and Microsoft's VC1, used in DVB-H, is only partly accelerated), and thus have to run on the ARM core, at the expense of higher power consumption.
"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer
Those are corporations, their goal is to make money. They're sitting on a pile of valuable allocation space. What prevents them from renting them away, just like any other ISP?
When can I have that inertial guidance in my Wiimotes?
It's funny to think that it's basically the same technology, although the wiimote uses MEMS accelerometers instead of high-precision gyroscopes (hence the error is way larger)
Microsoft is the living proof that Marketing > Quality (as if anybody doubted that). They know that their marketing dept is their most important asset, and they can afford to pour cash at them. Hence their marketing people can afford to try out any wacky ideas and see what sticks.
That's the only explanation I can come up for this initiative. Anything else makes me want to obliterate humanity.
I think L Lessig can have more impact from outside Congress, and concentrate on issues he cares about (copyright before, corruption now), rather than waste his time politicking about in Congress on issues he doesn't care about.
Sure, maybe he could have a little more impact working from the inside, but I'm cynically afraid that he'd soon be disgusted and burnt out against the rot in there.
[citation needed]
I've been wondering, does there exist hardware accelerators usable by OpenSSL or GnuTLS? I work in embedded systems, and our chip includes a crypto and hash processor. I'm surprised nothing equivalent exists on modern PCs, or have I just not been looking in the right places?
It's not because it's a civilian application that it can't still be a military secret (can it?).
So, what, your point is that, since KVM is better than Xen in the opinion of experienced techies, it will kick Xen's ass on the market?
When did technical superiority ever matter on the market?
I admire RMS' unmoving stance on Free. Will I emulate it? Certainly not. I believe RMS places himself, consciously or not, as a role model. He sits at an extreme of the Free/Proprietary spectrum, and will continuously push and pull in that direction.
For the rest of us who live in the real world and accept compromises to make our lives more comfortable, he's ridiculous. But that's not the point. The point is that he aims for an ideal that won't be attained by everyone, but that can be strived to.
So the fact that his complaints about the non-free wireless is ridiculous to the rest of us, but it does motivate some to provide a free alternative, and that is his objective.
Indeed, if you can't trust the hardware, you're fucked.
The solution is called TPM.
I'm serious. Yes, TPM in a home computer where you, the owner, lose control is bad. There are lots of other scenarios where it's good.
How do you get javascript from that?!?!?! Woops, you're right. I misread
Regarding doc, I'm didn't mean that you needed to read all the basics down to XML Namespaces or whatever, but I was surprised by your frustration with interacting with XMPP, and interpreted it as a lack of doc for semi-advanced topics. I couldn't believe that PyXMPP wouldn't provide even a basic tutorial on getting online and sending a message. Indeed, I haven't found anything after some quick googling.
As I said, there's a host of libraries for XMPP, and a popular alternative to PyXMPP is XMPPPy, which does provide examples. You could also use Twisted.Words, but Twisted's modules' docs have generally driven me insane.
If you wish to stick to PyXMPP, you could still have a look at tutorials for those other libraries, which will hopefully provide you with useful background. Good luck!
Didn't understand how to use the library? The problem is, there are a ton of XMPP libraries out there for every language (the one you used is for javascript) and there must be an unwritten agreement that it's no use for each library to re-explain the workings of XMPP...
The best way, I'm afraid, is to read the RFCs (mostly 3920 and 3921. There are updated, clearer drafts, 3920bis and 3921bis, a link away from that page) and XEPs (XMPP Extension Proposal). There's also a book, but I heard that it's a bit outdated.