Some of it may indeed be public domain but who said anything about laws?
I'm talking about morality here. Do those songs belong to you? Do you have a right to distribute them to people you don't even know?
If it's Public Domain, then it's owned by the community at large. Some artists choose to release work under the various Creative Commons licenses. Others don't, but still say "here, share these!".
Morality isn't an issue if it's been "given" to the community, because then people do have the right to share them.
If it's the latest chart-buster though, that's a different story. In some countries, they don't believe that information is protectable - so it doesn't violate their morality, just yours.
He did say it was in 2001... and he mentioned WinAmp and XMMS as supporting Vorbis:)
I just wish I had the cash to buy a new MP3 player - the iRivers look quite appealing, but I already have a 30GB iPod which makes it hard to justify ATM.
Are you compressing the data before you're dumping it to disk?
I can only assume FLAC can compress on-the-fly, so you could record directly to FLAC and not lose any quality over WAVs, at 50% of the size (and thus disk write speed required!).
Another option is to go for an insane Vorbis quality setting, but you'd probably prefer guaranteed lossless:)
starting 1/3 of employees 2hr earlier than normal and 1/3 2hr later
I really doubt this will work, at least not yet.
Right now I work 9-5:30. I get up around 7:30 (after going to bed at maybe 11?), I get home a little after 6PM.
If I start two hours earlier, I'm home early (yay!) at just after 4PM, but I'll also have to go to bed at 9PM now. I know it sounds ridiculous, but most people* wouldn't like that just because of the number of good TV shows that are 8:30-9:30, and 9:30-10:30.
* including me, sometimes.
If I start two hours later, I'm home after dinner (after 8PM - in time for TV, but my wife wouldn't be terribly happy!). I'd also be screwed sleep-wise, since my daughter (gorgeous 8-month-old that she is) thinks that 6:30-7:30 is wake-up time, and no amount of me pointing at my alarm settings is going to change that:-)
Economics applies as much to auto insurance as it does to anything else. If it COULD be done cheaper, it WOULD be done cheaper.
Sorry, I have a counter-example to that argument:)
Simple example - SMS. Here (.au), an SMS typically costs 25c, though I've seen lower on "SMS special" plans from smaller providers. (Maybe 12c?)
Yet the costs of providing the service could be recouped at nearly a tenth of that (other countries come much closer to the actual cost).
DVDs are another great example - in many countries (including this one!) it's cheaper in a lot of cases to import DVDs from the US and pay individual shipping rates, than it is to buy it from a local distributer (who you'd hope would be getting a bulk deal!).
Of course, in the DVD example, importing restrictions create trouble for people other than the distributor trying to bulk-import the discs - but it still happens.
You're going to get lynched if people try to put MP3s on your devices and it doesn't work...
That said, I really hope that someday I can play Vorbis on my (3rd-gen) iPod; I can't afford to replace it, and the Vorbis players I've looked at just don't seem as slick.
A computer is a function. For the same input, it will spit out the same output (yes, even for buggy crap like some Intel processors in the past).
A brain, for the same input will have different outputs. Try asking your wife or gf if they are in the "mood". Will you get the same answer all the time? The connections in the brain constantly rewire themselves hence it CANNOT be a function.
Erm... what about rand()? fread()? time()?
When you consider that the question you proposed to your SO is fairly high-level, what about has_new_mail()? "SELECT count(*)"?
Computers only return the same value from a function if they're in the same state. The only difference there is that we can set the state in a computer. We can't load and save timestamped personalities/feelings/memories/etc. with people.
If we could, you'd likely find (IMHO) that the "function" of your SO is fixed also.:)
The biggest difference I can see between KIOSlaves and Gnome-VFS is that KIOSlaves are decently supported by KDE apps.
Gnome-VFS is used so painfully infrequently...
(I'm a GNOME user; I've hacked Meld to be G-VFS aware and am really looking forward to having a real G-VFS-aware gedit so I can finally stop using smbmount!)
We have power management issues on laptops which Microsoft fixed in 1995.
I'm yet to see a Windows laptop handle suspend properly. Best ever is XP, which (on the laptops I've seen):
* Still has a 30%+ chance of not restoring
* Still takes several (8+) seconds to resume
* Still has a chance of hanging on suspend and killing the battery.
My iBook (800MHz) has performed near-flawlessly on all of these points for two and a half years under both OSX and Linux. (The "near" was caused by the reed switch being unglued from the inside of the case due to being bashed around for too long, and was fixed under warranty;).
Worst I've ever seen under Linux was in 2.4, which would take maybe 5 seconds to resume. 2.6 is more like 2. (OSX is up by the time I get the lid open all the way!)
OSX needed no configuration - Linux took a bit, which really should be fixed, but it still didn't take very long - and I was more than happy to spend the time to get an OS I'm more productive in. (Dev under OSX always annoyed me - I never understood the need for Mach-O's weird distinction between shared libs and dynamically loadable bundles).
YMMV, of course, but I've not been impressed by Windows's PM.
2. Group emails get a copy of the attachment each in most mailservers
3. People don't usually delete old emails - if you're working on a file on a share, you usually might keep a couple of copies. With email, you'll usually keep every revision. (Usually once for each person in the email, plus the sender - see #2).
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but I admin the mail server and we only have a dozen employees - almost all of whom use FTP and shares regularly.
The internet may be reliable, but:
1. It makes no promises on order and latency, which is critical for VoIP
2. There's likely more involved than POTS - Your ISP, which outsources its actual DSL stuff to another ISP, who then leases lines from a telco to link them to another provider, who then has another leased line from another telco to get them to the 911 service...
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Some of it may indeed be public domain but who said anything about laws?
I'm talking about morality here. Do those songs belong to you? Do you have a right to distribute them to people you don't even know?
If it's Public Domain, then it's owned by the community at large. Some artists choose to release work under the various Creative Commons licenses. Others don't, but still say "here, share these!".
Morality isn't an issue if it's been "given" to the community, because then people do have the right to share them.
If it's the latest chart-buster though, that's a different story. In some countries, they don't believe that information is protectable - so it doesn't violate their morality, just yours.
He did say it was in 2001... and he mentioned WinAmp and XMMS as supporting Vorbis :)
I just wish I had the cash to buy a new MP3 player - the iRivers look quite appealing, but I already have a 30GB iPod which makes it hard to justify ATM.
I wouldn't be too paranoid... MSN/HTTP on Gaim was broken for a very very long time, IIRC.
No, we can handle 26 wireless technologies. More if we add Greek letters.
Oh no, can you imagine it?
"802.11-OMEGA, because it's the last wireless gear you'll ever need!"
> > Try /dev/null
/dev/urandom
> Wow! A lot of hip-hop is in there, along with the latest and newest pop-music from RIAA, too!
No, that's
See, that's why I never eat at KFC anymore. It just seemed a little fishy to me...
Fishy? Weird. Whenever I've eaten there, everything's tasted like chicken...
Are you compressing the data before you're dumping it to disk?
:)
I can only assume FLAC can compress on-the-fly, so you could record directly to FLAC and not lose any quality over WAVs, at 50% of the size (and thus disk write speed required!).
Another option is to go for an insane Vorbis quality setting, but you'd probably prefer guaranteed lossless
starting 1/3 of employees 2hr earlier than normal and 1/3 2hr later
:-)
I really doubt this will work, at least not yet.
Right now I work 9-5:30. I get up around 7:30 (after going to bed at maybe 11?), I get home a little after 6PM.
If I start two hours earlier, I'm home early (yay!) at just after 4PM, but I'll also have to go to bed at 9PM now. I know it sounds ridiculous, but most people* wouldn't like that just because of the number of good TV shows that are 8:30-9:30, and 9:30-10:30.
* including me, sometimes.
If I start two hours later, I'm home after dinner (after 8PM - in time for TV, but my wife wouldn't be terribly happy!). I'd also be screwed sleep-wise, since my daughter (gorgeous 8-month-old that she is) thinks that 6:30-7:30 is wake-up time, and no amount of me pointing at my alarm settings is going to change that
Economics applies as much to auto insurance as it does to anything else. If it COULD be done cheaper, it WOULD be done cheaper.
:)
Sorry, I have a counter-example to that argument
Simple example - SMS. Here (.au), an SMS typically costs 25c, though I've seen lower on "SMS special" plans from smaller providers. (Maybe 12c?)
Yet the costs of providing the service could be recouped at nearly a tenth of that (other countries come much closer to the actual cost).
DVDs are another great example - in many countries (including this one!) it's cheaper in a lot of cases to import DVDs from the US and pay individual shipping rates, than it is to buy it from a local distributer (who you'd hope would be getting a bulk deal!).
Of course, in the DVD example, importing restrictions create trouble for people other than the distributor trying to bulk-import the discs - but it still happens.
robots.txt is your friend :)
You're going to get lynched if people try to put MP3s on your devices and it doesn't work...
That said, I really hope that someday I can play Vorbis on my (3rd-gen) iPod; I can't afford to replace it, and the Vorbis players I've looked at just don't seem as slick.
You're probably right - VPC on one of the new boxes should be pretty damn fast...
(some of the material hasn't been disturbed in over 4 billion years)
;-)
Yeah, all the stuff that wasn't disturbed by the last fifteen alien species firing probes at it
Time? This is no time to talk about time! We just don't have the time! ;-)
A computer is a function. For the same input, it will spit out the same output (yes, even for buggy crap like some Intel processors in the past).
:)
A brain, for the same input will have different outputs. Try asking your wife or gf if they are in the "mood". Will you get the same answer all the time? The connections in the brain constantly rewire themselves hence it CANNOT be a function.
Erm... what about rand()? fread()? time()?
When you consider that the question you proposed to your SO is fairly high-level, what about has_new_mail()? "SELECT count(*)"?
Computers only return the same value from a function if they're in the same state. The only difference there is that we can set the state in a computer. We can't load and save timestamped personalities/feelings/memories/etc. with people.
If we could, you'd likely find (IMHO) that the "function" of your SO is fixed also.
The biggest difference I can see between KIOSlaves and Gnome-VFS is that KIOSlaves are decently supported by KDE apps.
Gnome-VFS is used so painfully infrequently...
(I'm a GNOME user; I've hacked Meld to be G-VFS aware and am really looking forward to having a real G-VFS-aware gedit so I can finally stop using smbmount!)
We have power management issues on laptops which Microsoft fixed in 1995.
;).
I'm yet to see a Windows laptop handle suspend properly. Best ever is XP, which (on the laptops I've seen):
* Still has a 30%+ chance of not restoring
* Still takes several (8+) seconds to resume
* Still has a chance of hanging on suspend and killing the battery.
My iBook (800MHz) has performed near-flawlessly on all of these points for two and a half years under both OSX and Linux. (The "near" was caused by the reed switch being unglued from the inside of the case due to being bashed around for too long, and was fixed under warranty
Worst I've ever seen under Linux was in 2.4, which would take maybe 5 seconds to resume. 2.6 is more like 2. (OSX is up by the time I get the lid open all the way!)
OSX needed no configuration - Linux took a bit, which really should be fixed, but it still didn't take very long - and I was more than happy to spend the time to get an OS I'm more productive in. (Dev under OSX always annoyed me - I never understood the need for Mach-O's weird distinction between shared libs and dynamically loadable bundles).
YMMV, of course, but I've not been impressed by Windows's PM.
Well, technically it's 32 people, but the gate(way) and stereo are considered people by the house...
The old umsdos driver was far easier to confuse.
:)
Just make a file with the same name as it's "special file", then 'ls' the directory.
Bing!
George Hammond?
I thought he discovered Atlantis?
...and if the company making the cameras is the company operating them, the person with the key to sign the images would be... ;-)
apt-cache show approx
1. MIME & Base64
2. Group emails get a copy of the attachment each in most mailservers
3. People don't usually delete old emails - if you're working on a file on a share, you usually might keep a couple of copies. With email, you'll usually keep every revision. (Usually once for each person in the email, plus the sender - see #2).
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but I admin the mail server and we only have a dozen employees - almost all of whom use FTP and shares regularly.
The internet may be reliable, but:
1. It makes no promises on order and latency, which is critical for VoIP
2. There's likely more involved than POTS - Your ISP, which outsources its actual DSL stuff to another ISP, who then leases lines from a telco to link them to another provider, who then has another leased line from another telco to get them to the 911 service...
"Browser support" equates to this default CSS:
:-)
b {
font-weight: bold;
}
I think <b> is safe!