The issue is not that Ubuntu can't include the proprietary drivers. They do include the proprietary drivers, they just do not come installed by default.
And it's not that Ubuntu can't enable compositing, if that's what you're referring to -- it's just not enabled by default.
In fact, you are wrong about this altogether. The policy is not a change, but rather, maintaining status quo. The proprietary drivers will not be available by default, in the default repos. However, Synaptic has *check boxes* now where you can activate the Universe and Multiverse repositories where the proprietary drivers reside.
By default.
Just by clicking a check box.
No one is preventing anyone from using proprietary drivers. They just aren't going to be in the initial install of the distribution, enabled and used by default. That is all. Stand down.
It's gotta grab the face, too. This is one of the challenges to the approach they're taking in this project. It's why skin-tone detection has to be done, because while the face will not trigger much in the way of motion-detection, the basic configuration of nonmanual articulators (mouth, eyes, eyebrows, body orientation, gaze, etc.) need to be preserved in some identifiable fashion, too.
Waveform appearance does not equal audio perception.
Right, which is why I gave a nod to the psychoacoustic work LAME in particular has done with MP3.
Considering the very large amount of audio data in the average song which is not discernable by even the most trained human ear - we're talking biological and physical limitations - waveform reproduction is meaningless.
Don't tell that to people who swear by vinyl. And furthermore, if your claim is the whole and accurate story, the 22.05 kHz Nyquist limit of a 44.1 kHz is beyond perceptible by almost everyone, even infants. So why, if it's "meaningless" are there systems that record at sample rates of, e.g., 96 kHz? Clearly the reproduction and interpolation of the waveform is meaningful, at least to some.
As for lowpass filter frequency - again we are talking about wasted bits. I don't know what you think LAME -V2's lowpass is, but if you think ~19,000 KHz is too low - you are either a ten year old female, or deluded about what you can hear.
Good for LAME, again -- that's why I gave them props in grandparent. However, 19kHz is ostensibly not the filter frequency in many MP3 files. In fact, V2 isn't even the default for LAME, V4 is. At that setting, the lowpass filter falls somewhere around 16kHz.
To argue visual waveform reproduction has anything to do with it is wrong.
If 'it' == psychoacoustically-attuned codec methodologies, then of course the faithfulness of reproduction doesn't matter. However, it's important to understand what's going on with these algorithms for a variety of reasons, and to argue that spectrographic representations of waveforms don't tell you anything about what the codec is doing -- and thus how to continue to improve them -- is just ignorance.
It is empirically true that OGG creates a better reproduction of a waveform than MP3 at a given bitrate. You don't even have to know what a spectrogram means to see it. MP3 has a substantially lower lowpass filter frequency and tends to destroy the upper end of the spectrum even still.
I would be willing to yield, however, that LAME has successfully tweaked some psychoacoustic goodness so that in practice the deficiencies of the format are less-salient than the empirical tests would lead you to believe. It's just a matter of which you think / feel / hear / believe to be the priority. Vorbis still wins the file size (and waveform reproduction) at point of "transparency" showdown, but its lack of support overcomes even that difference.
No mod points or I'd be bumping this. I have three banks, now, that have gone to this multi-factor authentication, and the instructions for setting it up are really clear, but leave you thinking "What the fuck?!"
There's zero functional, usable information about what multi-factor authentication is or how you're supposed to use it properly. Without that understanding, this stuff doesn't stand a chance of being or becoming secure.
On the other hand, the public is exposed to a great deal of noise about open source licensing disputes and other issues that are important only to community members.
Maybe I'm not getting my news from the right sources, but I would imagine that in any given reputable news outlet, the MS-BSA fiasco is getting as much coverage as this FSF-Novell dustup... That is to say not much. I guess it's an empirical question, though, huh?
Because neither Microsoft's and the BSA's posturing nor open source's and the FSF's posturing is a valid reason to buy or not to buy and use either's software.
My point exactly. Mismanaged in both camps, and instead of taking the opportunity to spread the word that, e.g., businesses can use FOSS to avoid dealing with lots of licensing and auditing headaches, per the great story about the Ernie Ball company a few years back. Instead, it looks like a pissing contest to see which side can outlitigate the other.
Yeah, it's bad enough to have to drive 350 relatively-horizontal miles to get a part for something. I can't imagine having to go 350 relatively-vertical ones.
What they ruled on was that it was a scientific theory with more than one side to the story and that "An Inconvenient Truth" was not a dispassionate, non-partisan, objective look at the science involved. They were also concerned that none of the producers and Al Gore were scientists, and that showing it in a class without context would be a disservice to students.
Are teachers even allowed to teach anymore? And if they aren't teaching critical thought, we're all screwed, Gore film or no.
Show the kids this film. Show them the best work we know of from people whose heads are up their asses, saying there is no such thing as global warming, global warming isn't bad, and / or it certainly isn't being caused by humans or human activities. Have them write a paper analyzing one or both arguments. Tada!
There's a huge difference between presenting differing opinions and asking people to evaluate them versus indoctrinating kids with vanilla facts and expecting they'll somehow evolve the ability to think critically on their own. What a shitty policy. Unbiased does not mean good, and biased does not mean bad. But only if you know how to think about it, rather than assuming everything you hear in an instructional setting is designed for rote memorization.
There had good and damn well better be opposition from the NDP. Otherwise I may have to rethink my campaign to create an upstart New Democratic Party stateside.
It's well understood, I think, in policy theory that regulatory agencies are fully-legitimate actors in the policy process. They're given mandates by Congress, and of course, the House and the President control appropriations to the various departments and agencies. But once that mandate has been made law, the agencies are free to create regulations to enact that mandate however they see fit, until either public or legislative outcry against that regulation actually effects a change.
So you're half-right: FCC isn't allowed to "make laws". But it is allowed to make regulations as a method of enacting the laws it's charged with implementing. If Congress has a problem with that, then it needs to further change the law to specify bounds in which the FCC may act.
Saying "he infringed one of our movies!" is probably enough to get the ball rolling.) They then subpoena your computer's hard drive and either find movies on it and win or find that you tampered with it and win by default
Oh fantastic. This addresses my question in sister post fantastically. That's exactly what I expected this strategy would be used for. Thanks!
IANAL, but doesn't downloading a file someone thinks is a copyright-protected movie give something like probable cause to request permission to search that person's hard drive for files of interest? Were I advising them of a strategy to find people who're doing this, I'd think that would be an excellent way.
It seems like, based on search warrants I've seen, activity like that would be reason to compel seizure of computers and electronic devices, etc., etc., with intent to search for copyright-protected motion pictures, MPG, AVI, MOV files and the like. Please correct me if I'm off-base (highly likely)...
I can't stand the stuff. It's oily and salty and plain nasty. I'd rather cook something fresh than eat the freeze-dried instant carbohydrate disaster that is instant ramen.
Of course you don't eat instant ramen, then: you're missing the point! I'd rather cook something too, but that's precisely the time instant ramen is 100% NOT made for!
I would be very interested in hearing about how are they going to use the general knowledge of the wiki to filter out advertisement. For instance, let's say that an email that contains B12 is talking about a plane and not the vitamin, what other elements should the program take into account to distinguish this?
I do think you may have been a bit harsh on grandparent; I for one, having done some work in NLP, was wondering whether anyone else was really questioning the newsworthiness of the post. So you can, of course, imagine my relief to find someone with some NLP experience to be sneering. Now I feel a little validated.
Both you and grandparent bring up good points about searching databases WRT ontological / semantic automated processing. I have exactly the same questions you do about the potential for disambiguation.
Maybe I'm wrong -- and please, correct me, especially with sources for more information if you have them -- but it seems like there is an important separation between lexical (or dictionary, if you will) knowledge and encyclopedic knowledge. Just as in the two types of reference book, you look in lexical knowledge to find basic information about words and their senses. It's the encyclopedic knowledge that gives you detailed, background information about what's happening. Presumably, this is the most useful information in fine-tuning automated disambiguation, right?
But it should only be in extremely sophisticated instances of ambiguous words in text that a system has to go back to the encyclopedia to find the correct sense of a word. If your ontological implementation is reasonable, shouldn't you already be searching for "mouse" in computer-sense when dealing with a technology article? And shouldn't, likewise, the system "get" from deciphering a biology text that "mouse" there refers to a rodent?
But the problem, as parent points out, is how you actually implement such disambiguation, even with a large, agile encyclopedia to work off of. Specifically in the realms of jargon, etc., there are all sorts of instances where people come up with relatively novel abbreviations, coding systems, etc. Even rich encyclopedic knowledge or the best currently-functional ontological knowledge base wouldn't help this.
And then I also have to ask "well, what the hell, aren't we just playing the 'gotcha' game?" Props to the researchers for finding a new way of using Wikipedia. IMHO, NLP researchers are all to quick to fall back on the "world knowledge" excuse, half-knowing that this is a gaping problem with many implementations, while still confident in their response because it sufficiently distracts from the issue at hand. Nice work, folks -- I'm looking forward to seeing more!
Indiana in its entirety honored DST in 2006. Previous to that, 77 counties did not -- only those around Chicago metro, Louisville metro, and Evansville changed times before (IIRC, my description of the location of the DST counties may be a bit fuzzy).
In any event, my iBook automatically observed the change, and it was nothing more than a matter of setting my desktop to New York time rather than Indianapolis.
Because there were already time zone definitions that Indiana was moving into, there wasn't a big deal about compatibility. However, in this case, the definitions themselves will have to change, since there is not currently, at least the US time zones, an area that observes DST by the new length.
Oh, come on, just because we now have concrete evidence that US policy is being used and abused to torture innocent people... I mean, let's not jump to some rash conclusion.
That's a great idea, do you know where I can find a couple to have sex in my bedroom? Can I post on Craig's list for that? It's okay if they are shy, they can shut the door.
I was trying to find a way to turn grandparent into a dig on Slashdot readers. Thanks for the help:)
I love, love, loves me my CF bulbs. I'm never going back save for situations where I have a dimmer switch.
The bulbs make so much sense and are so much better in quality than even just a few years ago as far as color temperature. The good quality bulbs now are instant-on, and only "warm up" the teensiest bit over time.
For what it's worth, I was recently in Brazil, and the CF bulbs were everywhere down there. At least where I was staying, the city was so hippie liberal douchebaggy, with solar panels and recycling bins and everything. I was super impressed.
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Well, to upgrade to Vista, of course.
The issue is not that Ubuntu can't include the proprietary drivers. They do include the proprietary drivers, they just do not come installed by default.
And it's not that Ubuntu can't enable compositing, if that's what you're referring to -- it's just not enabled by default.
In fact, you are wrong about this altogether. The policy is not a change, but rather, maintaining status quo. The proprietary drivers will not be available by default, in the default repos. However, Synaptic has *check boxes* now where you can activate the Universe and Multiverse repositories where the proprietary drivers reside.
By default.
Just by clicking a check box.
No one is preventing anyone from using proprietary drivers. They just aren't going to be in the initial install of the distribution, enabled and used by default. That is all. Stand down.
It's gotta grab the face, too. This is one of the challenges to the approach they're taking in this project. It's why skin-tone detection has to be done, because while the face will not trigger much in the way of motion-detection, the basic configuration of nonmanual articulators (mouth, eyes, eyebrows, body orientation, gaze, etc.) need to be preserved in some identifiable fashion, too.
"They also weren't paying attention when China secured moderate amoutns of oil from America's much underestimated nothern neighbor."
I've heard of the Mythical Provence of Alberta, where the streets flow with liquid gold and even the sands are filled with oil.
But I don't think anyone in the US believes it actually exists.
I never saw a reason to have sliced bread on my system, since I couldn't fill the dependencies for libtoast0.
It is empirically true that OGG creates a better reproduction of a waveform than MP3 at a given bitrate. You don't even have to know what a spectrogram means to see it. MP3 has a substantially lower lowpass filter frequency and tends to destroy the upper end of the spectrum even still.
I would be willing to yield, however, that LAME has successfully tweaked some psychoacoustic goodness so that in practice the deficiencies of the format are less-salient than the empirical tests would lead you to believe. It's just a matter of which you think / feel / hear / believe to be the priority. Vorbis still wins the file size (and waveform reproduction) at point of "transparency" showdown, but its lack of support overcomes even that difference.
No mod points or I'd be bumping this. I have three banks, now, that have gone to this multi-factor authentication, and the instructions for setting it up are really clear, but leave you thinking "What the fuck?!"
There's zero functional, usable information about what multi-factor authentication is or how you're supposed to use it properly. Without that understanding, this stuff doesn't stand a chance of being or becoming secure.
But what does that have to do with this thread?
Yeah, it's bad enough to have to drive 350 relatively-horizontal miles to get a part for something. I can't imagine having to go 350 relatively-vertical ones.
Are teachers even allowed to teach anymore? And if they aren't teaching critical thought, we're all screwed, Gore film or no.
Show the kids this film. Show them the best work we know of from people whose heads are up their asses, saying there is no such thing as global warming, global warming isn't bad, and / or it certainly isn't being caused by humans or human activities. Have them write a paper analyzing one or both arguments. Tada!
There's a huge difference between presenting differing opinions and asking people to evaluate them versus indoctrinating kids with vanilla facts and expecting they'll somehow evolve the ability to think critically on their own. What a shitty policy. Unbiased does not mean good, and biased does not mean bad. But only if you know how to think about it, rather than assuming everything you hear in an instructional setting is designed for rote memorization.
Throw those school board bums out.
So in other words "Attention US Citizens:"
For more information, see here.
There had good and damn well better be opposition from the NDP. Otherwise I may have to rethink my campaign to create an upstart New Democratic Party stateside.
It's well understood, I think, in policy theory that regulatory agencies are fully-legitimate actors in the policy process. They're given mandates by Congress, and of course, the House and the President control appropriations to the various departments and agencies. But once that mandate has been made law, the agencies are free to create regulations to enact that mandate however they see fit, until either public or legislative outcry against that regulation actually effects a change.
So you're half-right: FCC isn't allowed to "make laws". But it is allowed to make regulations as a method of enacting the laws it's charged with implementing. If Congress has a problem with that, then it needs to further change the law to specify bounds in which the FCC may act.
Oh fantastic. This addresses my question in sister post fantastically. That's exactly what I expected this strategy would be used for. Thanks!
IANAL, but doesn't downloading a file someone thinks is a copyright-protected movie give something like probable cause to request permission to search that person's hard drive for files of interest? Were I advising them of a strategy to find people who're doing this, I'd think that would be an excellent way.
It seems like, based on search warrants I've seen, activity like that would be reason to compel seizure of computers and electronic devices, etc., etc., with intent to search for copyright-protected motion pictures, MPG, AVI, MOV files and the like. Please correct me if I'm off-base (highly likely)...
Of course you don't eat instant ramen, then: you're missing the point! I'd rather cook something too, but that's precisely the time instant ramen is 100% NOT made for!
I do think you may have been a bit harsh on grandparent; I for one, having done some work in NLP, was wondering whether anyone else was really questioning the newsworthiness of the post. So you can, of course, imagine my relief to find someone with some NLP experience to be sneering. Now I feel a little validated.
Both you and grandparent bring up good points about searching databases WRT ontological / semantic automated processing. I have exactly the same questions you do about the potential for disambiguation.
Maybe I'm wrong -- and please, correct me, especially with sources for more information if you have them -- but it seems like there is an important separation between lexical (or dictionary, if you will) knowledge and encyclopedic knowledge. Just as in the two types of reference book, you look in lexical knowledge to find basic information about words and their senses. It's the encyclopedic knowledge that gives you detailed, background information about what's happening. Presumably, this is the most useful information in fine-tuning automated disambiguation, right?
But it should only be in extremely sophisticated instances of ambiguous words in text that a system has to go back to the encyclopedia to find the correct sense of a word. If your ontological implementation is reasonable, shouldn't you already be searching for "mouse" in computer-sense when dealing with a technology article? And shouldn't, likewise, the system "get" from deciphering a biology text that "mouse" there refers to a rodent?
But the problem, as parent points out, is how you actually implement such disambiguation, even with a large, agile encyclopedia to work off of. Specifically in the realms of jargon, etc., there are all sorts of instances where people come up with relatively novel abbreviations, coding systems, etc. Even rich encyclopedic knowledge or the best currently-functional ontological knowledge base wouldn't help this.
And then I also have to ask "well, what the hell, aren't we just playing the 'gotcha' game?" Props to the researchers for finding a new way of using Wikipedia. IMHO, NLP researchers are all to quick to fall back on the "world knowledge" excuse, half-knowing that this is a gaping problem with many implementations, while still confident in their response because it sufficiently distracts from the issue at hand. Nice work, folks -- I'm looking forward to seeing more!
Indiana in its entirety honored DST in 2006. Previous to that, 77 counties did not -- only those around Chicago metro, Louisville metro, and Evansville changed times before (IIRC, my description of the location of the DST counties may be a bit fuzzy).
In any event, my iBook automatically observed the change, and it was nothing more than a matter of setting my desktop to New York time rather than Indianapolis.
Because there were already time zone definitions that Indiana was moving into, there wasn't a big deal about compatibility. However, in this case, the definitions themselves will have to change, since there is not currently, at least the US time zones, an area that observes DST by the new length.
Oh, come on, just because we now have concrete evidence that US policy is being used and abused to torture innocent people... I mean, let's not jump to some rash conclusion.
I was trying to find a way to turn grandparent into a dig on Slashdot readers. Thanks for the help
I love, love, loves me my CF bulbs. I'm never going back save for situations where I have a dimmer switch.
The bulbs make so much sense and are so much better in quality than even just a few years ago as far as color temperature. The good quality bulbs now are instant-on, and only "warm up" the teensiest bit over time.
For what it's worth, I was recently in Brazil, and the CF bulbs were everywhere down there. At least where I was staying, the city was so hippie liberal douchebaggy, with solar panels and recycling bins and everything. I was super impressed.