Actualy you would expect that the lables would only send pre-release copies to reviewers that had signed some kind of non-redistribution agreement with them, or at least a shrinkwrap agreement break seal only if you agree, call for a pick-up tag if you don't type of a thing.
If it were me running the lables, there would be a watermark or something on the disk so if we found it on the internet before the release date you'd be on the outs with us like Nixon did with some bothersome reporters. That way they'd be an underpaid reveiwer getting scooped all of the time, and getting ready to savage our album from the unemployment line.
The sad truth is that Sting may have written the lyrics and melody, worked it out for months in his little basement studio then had to sell the rights away to get it published. well actualy Sting probably has enough pull to avoid that but most don't. So if you pay a labled artist for his music, you are very probably paying someone who has no right to sell it, the RIAA or lable may own it lock-stock-and-barrel.
1. Could be that the adobe license covered a previous version of the fonts and the license wasn't upgraded with the font versions.
2. because the fonts represent letters they are indexed as letters which correspond to computers programs i,e, instructions to render the letter.
3. the indexing might even be construed as an encryption technique to protect the font, I know but we talking about legal stuff and who knows how they'll think.
Radiated heat is infrared, isn't it?
basicaly true but when the millitary say infrared, they are talking about blackbody radiation in the 1000 -500 K area and slightly cooler, when they say thermal they mean 500 - 200 K (tank exhaust temp down through body temperature) blackbody radiation. Yes that means if the ambiant air temp is 70 degrees you'll look like you are glowing in thermal sights, if the air temp is 99 degrees you are invisible and the air temp is 120 you look dark.
Just getting the hue and intensity right (and being able to vary those) will go a very long way actualy getting the hue and intensity right will be all but impossible on a battlefield. The Modern battlefield is just bristling with detectors and the human eye is one the easiest to fool, it only sees visible light, NODS Night Obsevation devices sees mainly reds and near infrared, Thermal vision devices of course sees very small temperature variations. And oppsoed to the eyes limited ability to see, the Human mind is one of the best pattern recognitions devices. a few LED's in red green and blue may be able to fool my naked eyes, especialy if you're very still, through in millimeterwave detectors, two or three different frequencies of radar and a multi-spectral scan is going to make you look like a searchlight at night.
I was taught to use psedo-code in COBOL class and try to still use it, but I notice that as a learn a language better, the pseudo-code is less pseudo and more code.
as for greping out the comments I did something like that in FORTRAN, I sorted out all of the comment cards and ran them through the card reader seperately, saved typing stuff twice
interesting that you use psuedo-code in java, UCSD pascal compiler outputed what they called p-code or pseudo-code that was supossed to be interpereted., just like java compiles to byte-code to be interperted.
These five guys all have to know each other and take turns being insaning high, patheticaly low, and three in the contest.
Also if one of them has worked a contract with the corp before and the manager is a anal juvenile idiot, the three in the contest all will increase there normal bids by 25% as an moron tax.
DNA databases do make the neighborhoods safer because overwhelmingly DNA evidence excludes people from being a suspect rather than including. Your less likely to be unjustly convicted if DNA evidence shows it's impossible for you to have done it.
On the other hand DNA evidence is statistical in nature, for instance the probabilty that two people would have the same DNA profile is something like one in 4 billion(that's the number that popped in my head). Now I don't know how exhaustive the statistical reasearch is so I can't jugde how reliable the statistics are such as are all of the loci really exclusive? Unfortunatly most people aren't savey enough to realise DNA isn't some kind of infallable crystal ball.
I asked a recent parolee what he thought the numbers were on incorrect convictions, he told me that he'd estimate that 25% are guilty of what they were in for, 25% were inncocent and didn't belong is prison at all and 50% were in there convicted of something they didn't do, but had done something else roughly equivelent.
I really do believe that all DNA labs keep the profiles in there database and that there is a system where a request for a match is sent out and the labs have to respond if they have a positive match. After that there records are supeoned for the profile
We live in a democracy, No we live in a Republic. The difference between a Democracy and a Republic is in a republic 9 hungery canables can't vote to eat number 10. The Soviet Union was a democracy, I believe the law actualy required everybody to vote. Most of the worst dictators in history have been legaly elected in there respective democracies.
The really scary thing is that these are (suppositely) smart, educated people. Why then do they act like a bunch of scared school children then? the little voice in my head says that this is the stupid stuff that people who feel threatened due. It's irrational, and the same kind of stupidity that lead to the Watergate break in. Nixon felt threaten by the democrats and the anti-war movement and he and or his people lashed out. The democrats didn't have a snow-balls chance in hell of beating Nixon in the election, but that didn't stop the plumber's from breaking in the democratic offices and starting one of the biggest on of the biggest political debacle in US history. in short irrational fear leads to irrational actions. If these guys had any sense they would just lease a T3 line, target four or five file sharer's a day and just send them 10K requests for a piece of copyrighted mateiral until the ISP's cut their connection the work down the list, problem solve no courts, no law enforcement involvement, no bad PR
1 the end user would have to keep sales reciepts for all backed-up copies, unforunatly the back-ups would last longer the the cheap paper that comes out of most sales-registers
2 Or the media company would have to keep a registration of all license agreements which would be a Point-of-Sales nightmare not to mention the huge storage management of course they would love the demographic info that could be culled from the database.
The upside of registerd media for us would be that it would imply that we purchased a license and the media which are seperate and have different values,(as appossed the the implied license of being able to use the content as long as the flimsy peice of plastic isn't broken or scrtached) posibly pushing the media company into a position where they would have to offer reasonable cost replacements for damaged media to registered license holders; and of course the artists would be able to say "hey, you're charging $2.95 for the disk and jewel-box, $3.95 for shipping and handling, so how come I'm only getting $0.07 on a $12.95 cd?
Hardware manufacturers are out to make as much money as possible- not to consort with the evil empire in plans to control your content. I guess that depends on how much of a kick-back er I mean discount on the OEM OS they get and whether they think that it'll offset any losses for sales. I'm afraid that hardware from civialized countries will be DRMed and hardware from uncivialized asian countries will be more open. Just like the DVD player from Korea that is easy to remove regonal code from. Then we'll have to depend on Customs agents to protect us.
I disagree the real reason is because the foreign distributers or even consummers have NOT filed a class-action suit against the MPAA for damages caused by the unfair trade practice of early releases in particular markets.
Used to be that a release had a A circuit, B circuit, then C Ciruit (mostly millitary and foriegn theaters).Then went to tape, VCR rentals and cable networks killed most of that getting distribution started to mean big money so the big rental chains started to negotiate early releases hurting the smaller MOM & POP rentals operations. This was decided to be an Un-fair trade practice because the small guys couldn't compete, so now everybody gets a pre-shipment and a release date, on that date it hits the selves for everybody. Get could cheating and you don't get the pre-shipment and have to hope that the shipment gets to you on the correct date and if you lose sales its because you were stupid.
Same principal would apply early release to region 1, but not region 2 in our global economy.
My understanding is that rpm has to be available, which is different from being used. Just like lpr has to be available, sometimes being available is a matter of providing a symlink or an alias to a superior but backward compatable program. LSB is a program that will make life easier for all of us.
almost, there is a lot of mom and pop software houses doing it, and then selling out to big companies. the problem is microsoft like the big-boys embrace, extent and become incompable when they've muscled enough market share. Medical/Dental and any other health care industry is customer driven and the customer is the third party payer. The insurence Co can basicaly say submit in this format and we'll pay you, when we feel like it, reject anything tha's slightly off-color and 10% of everything tha's perfect because you might forget to re-submit and we want the money to sit in our account until after the next quarterly report. If you can't play nice with the insurance company who pays 80% of the bill why worry about submitting an invoice to the patient for the remaining 20%? Now figgure out a way to get the insurance co to pay faster, and with less rejections and you're in like flint. We paid a good chunk of change for some awk scripts that parse a print file and transmit them electroncaly to a clearing house for billing, yet the real expense is still the per transaction charge they bill us
uses a Windows 3.x machine to run his scheduling software Ours (dental Office) is using charecter based serial terminals connected to a SCO Unix OS running COBOL programs. The company that sold it, sold out reformmed and is still collecting support payments from the customers that don't want to upgrade to a windows based system. A lot of dentists are using software that was developed for Vetrinaians.If you could figure out how to integrate all of the different input formats from digital imaging and digital radiography into a Linux based solution and migrate existing data you'd be swamped with orders
there is a why around the problem, given that it takes considerable voltage to throw an arc say 10 M as you said, we don't have to conduct the current through the air because the air has broken down into a conductive plasma so the current can be carried at a much lower voltage. My electric arc weld outputs 12 volts. use the tesla coil to start the arc and once conduction begins the voltage can drop.
Florecent lights work that way, the ballast puts out about 50KV to start the light then drops down to maintain the light
well let's see house current is 117 V rms x 15 A giving a max of 1755 watts, assuming 100% effeiciency to be safe and a voltage of 250,000 volts give a current of.00702 amperes input or 70 mA, and 10mA can be lethal so that seven times the lethal current. So limit the thing to 2 amps input or 230 watts and it'll only hurt like hell and you might wish you were dead. watch out for the ball on top it's a capacitor and will store charge greater than the input if big enough.
If you keep the freq high say in the 30K - 100KHz range, most of the current would skin effect around your body increasing the saftey factor and just burn skin rather than stop your heart.
in actual practice you'll probably only get about 125,000 volts. get out your physics book and crunch the numbers.
It's probably safe to play arround with an ignition coil, I've seen schmatics for real tesla coils in magazines, Popular Electronics I think late 70's.
Sorry but arcs are ionized air, there presence indicates that the un-avoidable dissociation of air atoms and one or two of their electrons has became structured such as giong from point A to point B. Air Ionization always happens when the charge density is enough to strip the electrons. the charge density is dependent on the amount of charge and the shape of the charge. that's why point things arc more than smooth things. just becuase the dischrge isn't great enough to be visible doen't mean it isn't there. Power is the product of the charge and the current, voltage alone dosn't make power, it's voltage times current.
Both are equivalent, even the variables have equivilent between the mechanical and the electrical. just a matter of relating the variables to different forces such as replacing force with EMF ect.
N. Tesla and T.Edison had quite a rivalry going in their day; Edison of course was the more popular both with the press and the people. This increased the rivalry. Edison prefered direct current electicity, it's a lot easier on incandensent light bulb filliments, reducing mechanical stress (I run my photo enlarger's bulb on rectified current for stedier output and longer life), and wire Henery Ford's home Fairlane Manor for DC. Tesla favored alternating current because it's easier to transport tranformers to increase voltage and reducing I x R losses. If memory serves me correctly Telsa claimed Edison had infringed on several of his patents conserning electrical power transmission.
Actualy T Edison grew up about a block from where I had lived in Port Huron MI (He hated Port Huron), the Train Station where he boarded the train to sell newspapers has been turned into a museum.
I not sure I would classify Edison as a scientist, he seemed more like an experimental engineer or even a hardware hackers than a scientist. Tesla was more of a scientist
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>unix will never ask you, "are you sure?"
I thought format c: ->press any key to continue was pretty funny
>MySQL versus Microsoft Access, those are reasonable comparisons
wow Access must have grown up a lot since the last time I tried to used it
Actualy you would expect that the lables would only send pre-release copies to reviewers that had signed some kind of non-redistribution agreement with them, or at least a shrinkwrap agreement break seal only if you agree, call for a pick-up tag if you don't type of a thing.
If it were me running the lables, there would be a watermark or something on the disk so if we found it on the internet before the release date you'd be on the outs with us like Nixon did with some bothersome reporters. That way they'd be an underpaid reveiwer getting scooped all of the time, and getting ready to savage our album from the unemployment line.
The sad truth is that Sting may have written the lyrics and melody, worked it out for months in his little basement studio then had to sell the rights away to get it published. well actualy Sting probably has enough pull to avoid that but most don't.
So if you pay a labled artist for his music, you are very probably paying someone who has no right to sell it, the RIAA or lable may own it lock-stock-and-barrel.
1. Could be that the adobe license covered a previous version of the fonts and the license wasn't upgraded with the font versions.
2. because the fonts represent letters they are indexed as letters which correspond to computers programs i,e, instructions to render the letter.
3. the indexing might even be construed as an encryption technique to protect the font, I know but we talking about legal stuff and who knows how they'll think.
so a DMCA violation might not be that far fetched
Radiated heat is infrared, isn't it?
basicaly true but when the millitary say infrared, they are talking about blackbody radiation in the 1000 -500 K area and slightly cooler, when they say thermal they mean 500 - 200 K (tank exhaust temp down through body temperature) blackbody radiation. Yes that means if the ambiant air temp is 70 degrees you'll look like you are glowing in thermal sights, if the air temp is 99 degrees you are invisible and the air temp is 120 you look dark.
Just getting the hue and intensity right (and being able to vary those) will go a very long way actualy getting the hue and intensity right will be all but impossible on a battlefield. The Modern battlefield is just bristling with detectors and the human eye is one the easiest to fool, it only sees visible light, NODS Night Obsevation devices sees mainly reds and near infrared, Thermal vision devices of course sees very small temperature variations. And oppsoed to the eyes limited ability to see, the Human mind is one of the best pattern recognitions devices. a few LED's in red green and blue may be able to fool my naked eyes, especialy if you're very still, through in millimeterwave detectors, two or three different frequencies of radar and a multi-spectral scan is going to make you look like a searchlight at night.
Cool, built in targeting information. RIAA would target the top three servers each day, just scan the quality ratings.
I was taught to use psedo-code in COBOL class and try to still use it, but I notice that as a learn a language better, the pseudo-code is less pseudo and more code.
as for greping out the comments I did something like that in FORTRAN, I sorted out all of the comment cards and ran them through the card reader seperately, saved typing stuff twice
interesting that you use psuedo-code in java, UCSD pascal compiler outputed what they called p-code or pseudo-code that was supossed to be interpereted., just like java compiles to byte-code to be interperted.
These five guys all have to know each other and take turns being insaning high, patheticaly low, and three in the contest.
Also if one of them has worked a contract with the corp before and the manager is a anal juvenile idiot, the three in the contest all will increase there normal bids by 25% as an moron tax.
DNA databases do make the neighborhoods safer because overwhelmingly DNA evidence excludes people from being a suspect rather than including. Your less likely to be unjustly convicted if DNA evidence shows it's impossible for you to have done it.
On the other hand DNA evidence is statistical in nature, for instance the probabilty that two people would have the same DNA profile is something like one in 4 billion(that's the number that popped in my head). Now I don't know how exhaustive the statistical reasearch is so I can't jugde how reliable the statistics are such as are all of the loci really exclusive? Unfortunatly most people aren't savey enough to realise DNA isn't some kind of infallable crystal ball.
I asked a recent parolee what he thought the numbers were on incorrect convictions, he told me that he'd estimate that 25% are guilty of what they were in for, 25% were inncocent and didn't belong is prison at all and 50% were in there convicted of something they didn't do, but had done something else roughly equivelent.
I really do believe that all DNA labs keep the profiles in there database and that there is a system where a request for a match is sent out and the labs have to respond if they have a positive match. After that there records are supeoned for the profile
We live in a democracy, No we live in a Republic. The difference between a Democracy and a Republic is in a republic 9 hungery canables can't vote to eat number 10.
The Soviet Union was a democracy, I believe the law actualy required everybody to vote. Most of the worst dictators in history have been legaly elected in there respective democracies.
The really scary thing is that these are (suppositely) smart, educated people. Why then do they act like a bunch of scared school children then? the little voice in my head says that this is the stupid stuff that people who feel threatened due. It's irrational, and the same kind of stupidity that lead to the Watergate break in. Nixon felt threaten by the democrats and the anti-war movement and he and or his people lashed out. The democrats didn't have a snow-balls chance in hell of beating Nixon in the election, but that didn't stop the plumber's from breaking in the democratic offices and starting one of the biggest on of the biggest political debacle in US history. in short irrational fear leads to irrational actions.
If these guys had any sense they would just lease a T3 line, target four or five file sharer's a day and just send them 10K requests for a piece of copyrighted mateiral until the ISP's cut their connection the work down the list, problem solve no courts, no law enforcement involvement, no bad PR
In order to prove one way or the other,
1 the end user would have to keep sales reciepts for all backed-up copies, unforunatly the back-ups would last longer the the cheap paper that comes out of most sales-registers
2 Or the media company would have to keep a registration of all license agreements which would be a Point-of-Sales nightmare not to mention the huge storage management of course they would love the demographic info that could be culled from the database.
The upside of registerd media for us would be that it would imply that we purchased a license and the media which are seperate and have different values,(as appossed the the implied license of being able to use the content as long as the flimsy peice of plastic isn't broken or scrtached) posibly pushing the media company into a position where they would have to offer reasonable cost replacements for damaged media to registered license holders; and of course the artists would be able to say "hey, you're charging $2.95 for the disk and jewel-box, $3.95 for shipping and handling, so how come I'm only getting $0.07 on a $12.95 cd?
Hardware manufacturers are out to make as much money as possible- not to consort with the evil empire in plans to control your content.
I guess that depends on how much of a kick-back er I mean discount on the OEM OS they get and whether they think that it'll offset any losses for sales. I'm afraid that hardware from civialized countries will be DRMed and hardware from uncivialized asian countries will be more open. Just like the DVD player from Korea that is easy to remove regonal code from. Then we'll have to depend on Customs agents to protect us.
I disagree the real reason is because the foreign distributers or even consummers have NOT filed a class-action suit against the MPAA for damages caused by the unfair trade practice of early releases in particular markets.
Used to be that a release had a A circuit, B circuit, then C Ciruit (mostly millitary and foriegn theaters).Then went to tape, VCR rentals and cable networks killed most of that getting distribution started to mean big money so the big rental chains started to negotiate early releases hurting the smaller MOM & POP rentals operations. This was decided to be an Un-fair trade practice because the small guys couldn't compete, so now everybody gets a pre-shipment and a release date, on that date it hits the selves for everybody. Get could cheating and you don't get the pre-shipment and have to hope that the shipment gets to you on the correct date and if you lose sales its because you were stupid.
Same principal would apply early release to region 1, but not region 2 in our global economy.
My understanding is that rpm has to be available, which is different from being used. Just like lpr has to be available, sometimes being available is a matter of providing a symlink or an alias to a superior but backward compatable program. LSB is a program that will make life easier for all of us.
almost, there is a lot of mom and pop software houses doing it, and then selling out to big companies. the problem is microsoft like the big-boys embrace, extent and become incompable when they've muscled enough market share.
Medical/Dental and any other health care industry is customer driven and the customer is the third party payer. The insurence Co can basicaly say submit in this format and we'll pay you, when we feel like it, reject anything tha's slightly off-color and 10% of everything tha's perfect because you might forget to re-submit and we want the money to sit in our account until after the next quarterly report. If you can't play nice with the insurance company who pays 80% of the bill why worry about submitting an invoice to the patient for the remaining 20%? Now figgure out a way to get the insurance co to pay faster, and with less rejections and you're in like flint. We paid a good chunk of change for some awk scripts that parse a print file and transmit them electroncaly to a clearing house for billing, yet the real expense is still the per transaction charge they bill us
uses a Windows 3.x machine to run his scheduling software Ours (dental Office) is using charecter based serial terminals connected to a SCO Unix OS running COBOL programs. The company that sold it, sold out reformmed and is still collecting support payments from the customers that don't want to upgrade to a windows based system. A lot of dentists are using software that was developed for Vetrinaians.If you could figure out how to integrate all of the different input formats from digital imaging and digital radiography into a Linux based solution and migrate existing data you'd be swamped with orders
I have to agree with you, steel wire is a resistor and so is your body, so let them urinate on an electric fence to prove us wrong.
there is a why around the problem, given that it takes considerable voltage to throw an arc say 10 M as you said, we don't have to conduct the current through the air because the air has broken down into a conductive plasma so the current can be carried at a much lower voltage. My electric arc weld outputs 12 volts. use the tesla coil to start the arc and once conduction begins the voltage can drop.
Florecent lights work that way, the ballast puts out about 50KV to start the light then drops down to maintain the light
well let's see house current is 117 V rms x 15 A giving a max of 1755 watts, assuming 100% effeiciency to be safe and a voltage of 250,000 volts give a current of .00702 amperes input or 70 mA, and 10mA can be lethal so that seven times the lethal current. So limit the thing to 2 amps input or 230 watts and it'll only hurt like hell and you might wish you were dead. watch out for the ball on top it's a capacitor and will store charge greater than the input if big enough.
If you keep the freq high say in the 30K - 100KHz range, most of the current would skin effect around your body increasing the saftey factor and just burn skin rather than stop your heart.
in actual practice you'll probably only get about 125,000 volts. get out your physics book and crunch the numbers.
It's probably safe to play arround with an ignition coil, I've seen schmatics for real tesla coils in magazines, Popular Electronics I think late 70's.
Sorry but arcs are ionized air, there presence indicates that the un-avoidable dissociation of air atoms and one or two of their electrons has became structured such as giong from point A to point B. Air Ionization always happens when the charge density is enough to strip the electrons. the charge density is dependent on the amount of charge and the shape of the charge. that's why point things arc more than smooth things. just becuase the dischrge isn't great enough to be visible doen't mean it isn't there. Power is the product of the charge and the current, voltage alone dosn't make power, it's voltage times current.
Both are equivalent, even the variables have equivilent between the mechanical and the electrical. just a matter of relating the variables to different forces such as replacing force with EMF ect.
N. Tesla and T.Edison had quite a rivalry going in their day; Edison of course was the more popular both with the press and the people. This increased the rivalry. Edison prefered direct current electicity, it's a lot easier on incandensent light bulb filliments, reducing mechanical stress (I run my photo enlarger's bulb on rectified current for stedier output and longer life), and wire Henery Ford's home Fairlane Manor for DC. Tesla favored alternating current because it's easier to transport tranformers to increase voltage and reducing I x R losses. If memory serves me correctly Telsa claimed Edison had infringed on several of his patents conserning electrical power transmission.
Actualy T Edison grew up about a block from where I had lived in Port Huron MI (He hated Port Huron), the Train Station where he boarded the train to sell newspapers has been turned into a museum.
I not sure I would classify Edison as a scientist, he seemed more like an experimental engineer or even a hardware hackers than a scientist. Tesla was more of a scientist