As before, reproduction tech influenced the character of the music. Could a player piano reproduce a slow, soft Beethoven movement? It could try, but because the paper rolls allowed for no dynamic subtlety, every key would have been banged out exactly as loud as the next. If anyone tried selling a Beethoven piano roll, they lost their shirts -- evolution in action.
Actually, the players did have dynamic variation. As before, reproduction tech influenced the character of the music. Could a player piano reproduce a slow, soft Beethoven movement? It could try, but because the paper rolls allowed for no dynamic subtlety, every key would have been banged out exactly as loud as the next. If anyone tried selling a Beethoven piano roll, they lost their shirts -- evolution in action.
Actually, player pianos did have dynamic variation.
Originally, rolls came from player organs. These were simple to make, the air was blown at the roll, and where a hole occured, the air blew through, and into the pipes to make the sound.
This mechanism was carried into the player pianos, so that the width of the hole indicated how hard the hammers should strike, while the length indicated the sustain. Here is a good article on how it all works, and if you want to order some Beethoven for your player piano, here are some, including the Moonlight sonata, my personal favourite Beethoven piece.
How many times has Microsoft said 'no more 16 bit code'. How many times has more 16 bit code been found? Why would anyone think that it would be any different for the move to 64 bit code?
What if the Goverment made a website, which required IE, and planned that in the future, you must interact with this site if you wish to do your taxes on line. It could never happen you say? Think again.
A few years ago I read a story on the British rating board, and the story was saying that out of the films that were recut, and then sent back to the board to be re-rated, about 60% had a higher rating, and about 20% a lower one. In other words, the distributers are more likely to be upset by a low rating than a high one.
That's the theory, but there are many patents on purely mathematical transformations. For example, the LZW patents (Both of them, the IBM one and the Unisys one).
I think the answer is that different industries need different levels of patents. Some industries don't need them at all, and some need very strong protection.
Having said that, I think drug patents is one where reform is needed. You get the same protection for a totally new type of drug as for one which is a copycat of an existing one, with just enough changes to get past the original patent. The patent system should be jigged to encourange the new drugs, while currently it's better for comapanies to make the copycats.
ASCII is, and always was, a 7 bit standard, which encoded 95 printable characters and 33 control codes. 'high-ascii' just does not exist, and never did.
Not terribily suprising. The chances of getting 12 correct with 12 guesses is 80!-68!, or 1 in 1,962,360,214,549,183,088,640,000. Even if a trillion guesses are played, the chances of winning are still almost 2000 trillion to 1.
Now Darren says the original IPFilter license does allow modification and that he won't change it because that would imply there's something wrong with it.
I have to say that if people are having problems understanding exactly what rights the license gives them, then there IS something wrong with it.
what's to say that somewhere down the line heroin and cocaine addicts won't start the same "Legalize It" tactics? Why should it be only a legalize pot issue when pot isn't the only drug?
Hell, I'll say it now. I'm not an addict, I've never even taken any illegal drug, but all currently drugs should be legalized, and the problems that addicts have should be treated as a medical problem. Our current policies make no sense at all, tobacco is known to be dangerous, alcohol results in more crimes & problems than all other drugs put together, and yet they're legal. Prohibition does not work, and all it does is give an incentive for organized crime to step in.
Because the assumpions in a P4 lab are basically universal. That the organism cannot pentrate through the materials making the enclosure and that life will not survive the decontamination process. It doesn't matter if it's a silicon based life, or anything else, as long as it can't open doors...
We manage quite well right now in P4 labs studying known dangerous organisms. If there is life on mars, it's not going to be too unlike these existing organisms.
There are plenty of bugs which are 'hot' in one host, and endemic to other hosts. Ebola is thought to incubate in other primates, where is doesn't produce the drastic symptoms, and only causes outbreaks in humans when it switches hosts.
The Apollo moon samples were also quarantined and the chances of finding living material on the moon was very remote. Mars is much more likely to contain living material, and therefore even more caution should be taken. Apart from anything else, we want to make sure that earthly life doesn't infect the mars rock before it's been established that there aren't any martian lifeforms there.
I'd have to ask what's the value in doing the launch vehicle ourselves? All the preexisting developed launch sites will have their 'home' vehicle, which the site will be designed to handle. You can't (easily) launch a Ariane from Vandenberg for example. Therefore you'd have to either design a lookalike, or also build all the infrastructure. Either way, it's going to be a lot cheaper to just buy a ride on the existing vehicle.
The parser and event buffer decouple the CPU from having to parse the MPEG stream and from the real time nature of the data streams which allows for slower CPU and bus speeds and translate to lower system costs.
What you're basically talking about is hardware MPEG handling, with DMA to the disk, so that the CPU doesn't have to get involved except for control processes. This isn't very novel, for example I dealt with a SEM with very similar characteristics. The CPU set up the scans, then retreived them from the disk, but didn't get involved apart from that.
But harder is not absolute. It depends on your knowledge mapping to the question. If the subject was geography, and they asked you which river runs through Paris, and you happened to take your last vacation in Paris, you'd have a good chance of getting the right answer. Does this mean that you are good at geography? No, if they'd asked you the same question about Glasgow, you'd have had no clue, so the Paris question is for you, much easier than the Glasgow one. For someone who happened to go to Scotland on vacation, the opposite would be true. With 20 questions or less, then it would not take a lot of co-incidence for the questions to happen to map really well, or really badly, onto your knowledge.
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Actually, the players did have dynamic variation. As before, reproduction tech influenced the character of the music. Could a player piano reproduce a slow, soft Beethoven movement? It could try, but because the paper rolls allowed for no dynamic subtlety, every key would have been banged out exactly as loud as the next. If anyone tried selling a Beethoven piano roll, they lost their shirts -- evolution in action.
Actually, player pianos did have dynamic variation.
Originally, rolls came from player organs. These were simple to make, the air was blown at the roll, and where a hole occured, the air blew through, and into the pipes to make the sound. This mechanism was carried into the player pianos, so that the width of the hole indicated how hard the hammers should strike, while the length indicated the sustain. Here is a good article on how it all works, and if you want to order some Beethoven for your player piano, here are some, including the Moonlight sonata, my personal favourite Beethoven piece.
How many times has Microsoft said 'no more 16 bit code'. How many times has more 16 bit code been found? Why would anyone think that it would be any different for the move to 64 bit code?
What if the Goverment made a website, which required IE, and planned that in the future, you must interact with this site if you wish to do your taxes on line. It could never happen you say? Think again.
A few years ago I read a story on the British rating board, and the story was saying that out of the films that were recut, and then sent back to the board to be re-rated, about 60% had a higher rating, and about 20% a lower one. In other words, the distributers are more likely to be upset by a low rating than a high one.
That's the theory, but there are many patents on purely mathematical transformations. For example, the LZW patents (Both of them, the IBM one and the Unisys one).
Having said that, I think drug patents is one where reform is needed. You get the same protection for a totally new type of drug as for one which is a copycat of an existing one, with just enough changes to get past the original patent. The patent system should be jigged to encourange the new drugs, while currently it's better for comapanies to make the copycats.
ASCII is, and always was, a 7 bit standard, which encoded 95 printable characters and 33 control codes. 'high-ascii' just does not exist, and never did.
Not terribily suprising. The chances of getting 12 correct with 12 guesses is 80!-68!, or 1 in 1,962,360,214,549,183,088,640,000. Even if a trillion guesses are played, the chances of winning are still almost 2000 trillion to 1.
So why are casettes cheaper than CDs?
I have to say that if people are having problems understanding exactly what rights the license gives them, then there IS something wrong with it.
Despite all the hype, NASA & the US government aren't really very good at practical planning ahead.
Hell, I'll say it now. I'm not an addict, I've never even taken any illegal drug, but all currently drugs should be legalized, and the problems that addicts have should be treated as a medical problem. Our current policies make no sense at all, tobacco is known to be dangerous, alcohol results in more crimes & problems than all other drugs put together, and yet they're legal. Prohibition does not work, and all it does is give an incentive for organized crime to step in.
Because the assumpions in a P4 lab are basically universal. That the organism cannot pentrate through the materials making the enclosure and that life will not survive the decontamination process. It doesn't matter if it's a silicon based life, or anything else, as long as it can't open doors...
That's very contraversal. The only test which showed improvement with the Dvorak format was organised by ... Dvorak.
We manage quite well right now in P4 labs studying known dangerous organisms. If there is life on mars, it's not going to be too unlike these existing organisms.
There are plenty of bugs which are 'hot' in one host, and endemic to other hosts. Ebola is thought to incubate in other primates, where is doesn't produce the drastic symptoms, and only causes outbreaks in humans when it switches hosts.
The Apollo moon samples were also quarantined and the chances of finding living material on the moon was very remote. Mars is much more likely to contain living material, and therefore even more caution should be taken. Apart from anything else, we want to make sure that earthly life doesn't infect the mars rock before it's been established that there aren't any martian lifeforms there.
From quackwatch: A good chiropractor can do a lot to help you when you have mechanical-type back pain and other musculoskeletal problems. But until the chiropractic profession cleans up its act, and its colleges uniformly graduate properly limited chiropractors who specialize in neuromusculoskeletal problems, you'll have to exercise caution and informed judgment when seeking chiropractic care.
Yes, quacks do tend to find quackwatch annoying.
Where does the original poster say it's a Linux system?
I'd have to ask what's the value in doing the launch vehicle ourselves? All the preexisting developed launch sites will have their 'home' vehicle, which the site will be designed to handle. You can't (easily) launch a Ariane from Vandenberg for example. Therefore you'd have to either design a lookalike, or also build all the infrastructure. Either way, it's going to be a lot cheaper to just buy a ride on the existing vehicle.
Dangers of Chiropractors Much of what chiropractors do is nonsense, and they often misinform their patients.
What you're basically talking about is hardware MPEG handling, with DMA to the disk, so that the CPU doesn't have to get involved except for control processes. This isn't very novel, for example I dealt with a SEM with very similar characteristics. The CPU set up the scans, then retreived them from the disk, but didn't get involved apart from that.
But harder is not absolute. It depends on your knowledge mapping to the question. If the subject was geography, and they asked you which river runs through Paris, and you happened to take your last vacation in Paris, you'd have a good chance of getting the right answer. Does this mean that you are good at geography? No, if they'd asked you the same question about Glasgow, you'd have had no clue, so the Paris question is for you, much easier than the Glasgow one. For someone who happened to go to Scotland on vacation, the opposite would be true. With 20 questions or less, then it would not take a lot of co-incidence for the questions to happen to map really well, or really badly, onto your knowledge.
In Australia almost all TVs support both NTSC and PAL.