There's an interesting article in the July/August edition of American Scientist which claims that Europe's warm weather (for its latitude) doesn't depend on the Gulf Stream:
You can get thousands of plays from vinyl if you're reasonably carefaul. Second-hand vinyl you should always clean anyway. Then do a 96/24 recording - it's preserved (for ever...).
It's not quite true to say that analog has infinite resolution and digital doesn't. With correct dithering, at least the LSB of a digital signal is going to be dancing around, so you couldn't hit one of thos 65536 steps if you tried. If you don't dither, you'll get unpleasant distortion.
The main reason for using 24 bits at the tracking (recording) stage is to provide some headroom for unexpected signals. E.g. you can safely track at a much lower average level (-12dB say) say, than trying to stuff everything into the top 6dB of a 16-bit signal. 32 or 64-bits is used while processing, of course, to maintain resolution.
There's one reason that modern CDs sound crap: and that's excessive limiting (audio compression) caused by record companies' devotion to the 'loudness wars'. CDs can sound sublime, but for me vinyl is king. I just love the euphonic distortion of vinyl.
One way: the files are pre-encrypted, you have to go online, type in a unique passcode on a sticker with the DVD and download a license to the client PC. The passcode is one-(or whatever)shot.
If you want to keep discussing this, then ok. I'll grab the information from the source you cited.
From the Wikipedia article you quoted (2nd paragraph):
"Cro-Magnons lived from about 35,000 to 10,000 years"
From the Wikipedia article on Lascaux:
"..types of materials believed to have been used 19,000 years ago."
I've already quoted the original article which parses only one way - Lightman thinks the Lascaux paintings were made 100,000 years ago. If there really were any paintings from this period (the oldest known are in Chauvet from about 32,000 years ago, although this estimate is considered too old by many) this would be an amazing discovery which would change a lot of ideas about human development.
My point is this: to anyone who knows anything about these cave paintings, this is a howler of an error. Something akin to believing humans co-existed with dinosaurs (not quite as bad though). I was showing some irony, but not what you think: if intellectuals want to resist attack, they've got to get their facts right. There's a reason there's such a phrase as "intellectual rigour". If Lightman wasn't challanged on this, many people would think this age was correct.
Your attack on me, simply because I pointed out his error (and then hinted he might not be quite the intellectual he thinks he is), is precisely a version of this "greater attack against intellectualism." Intellectuals should be robust in their arguments and not succumb to sloppy thinking or fact-checking. Attacking the person because he stated that your facts are simply wrong is the behaviour shown by groups such as creationists.
With a subscription, I stop paying, and I lose everything.
Is this a problem? Surely with a subscription service, your everything is just a list of songs. You can go to another service, or just rejoin the same one some time later and get all your songs back again.
The question to ask is whether the lifetime cost of subscription is more or less than you would have spent buying each track for $0.99 (for now!).
A spec should be used to write the acceptance tests for the application (and indeed a lot of the unit tests). Documents just sit there and don't tell you when something's wrong - repeatable tests do.
A specificiation should specify how a program behaves to the external world, not how it should be implemented.
No, the reason you can't buy and download tracks from Apple on the phone is that the cell carriers want to sell you songs. They don't want you using iTunes - they want that action.
The download cost for a song isn't the issue, the standard model used by mobile phone companies is to allow free downloading (i.e. included in the price of the song) for a set period (normally 72 hours) from the time of purchase.
This story is very new and very interesting. String theory needs 11 dimensions to work (in the some formulations) but hasn't got to the point where any predictions could be tested by experiment.
Also, it hasn't beem possible to find a unique theory where our universe naturally 'drops out'. A huge number of different universes (vacua) are predicted and the anthropic principle has to be used to select one we see.
Now suddenly we have a plausible measurement that matches string theory. Information about the extent of the extra dimensions could be used to constrain different versions of the theory and arrive at something with more predictive value.
But the the e-mail contains a link the phishing site. All they have to do is drive the real site with the user id and password, and echo back the pictures and random questions. Then it's "Sorry, website unavailable" while they plunder your account.
If foreign words, e.g. from French, hadn't "crept" into the English language, you really would be speaking (some kind of) German now. English evolved by absorbing words from many languages, and still does.
And, by the way, oxen is from Old English, a language spoken by people who came from Germany. So boxen seems a reasonable thing to say in English.
What he's saying is that, in a context switch, you treat the SPES like hardware io and wait for them to finish the assigned task. The thread can simply block on the SPE and give up control to another thread.
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There's an interesting article in the July/August edition of American Scientist which claims that Europe's warm weather (for its latitude) doesn't depend on the Gulf Stream:
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Of course, that doesn't mean Europeans (where I am!) shouldn't care about global warming.
You can get thousands of plays from vinyl if you're reasonably carefaul. Second-hand vinyl you should always clean anyway. Then do a 96/24 recording - it's preserved (for ever...).
Can you name any major scientific discovery that was made as a result of a prize like this?
It's not quite true to say that analog has infinite resolution and digital doesn't. With correct dithering, at least the LSB of a digital signal is going to be dancing around, so you couldn't hit one of thos 65536 steps if you tried. If you don't dither, you'll get unpleasant distortion.
The main reason for using 24 bits at the tracking (recording) stage is to provide some headroom for unexpected signals. E.g. you can safely track at a much lower average level (-12dB say) say, than trying to stuff everything into the top 6dB of a 16-bit signal. 32 or 64-bits is used while processing, of course, to maintain resolution.
There's one reason that modern CDs sound crap: and that's excessive limiting (audio compression) caused by record companies' devotion to the 'loudness wars'. CDs can sound sublime, but for me vinyl is king. I just love the euphonic distortion of vinyl.
One way: the files are pre-encrypted, you have to go online, type in a unique passcode on a sticker with the DVD and download a license to the client PC. The passcode is one-(or whatever)shot.
If you want to keep discussing this, then ok. I'll grab the information from the source you cited.
From the Wikipedia article you quoted (2nd paragraph):
"Cro-Magnons lived from about 35,000 to 10,000 years"
From the Wikipedia article on Lascaux:
"..types of materials believed to have been used 19,000 years ago."
I've already quoted the original article which parses only one way - Lightman thinks the Lascaux paintings were made 100,000 years ago. If there really were any paintings from this period (the oldest known are in Chauvet from about 32,000 years ago, although this estimate is considered too old by many) this would be an amazing discovery which would change a lot of ideas about human development.
My point is this: to anyone who knows anything about these cave paintings, this is a howler of an error. Something akin to believing humans co-existed with dinosaurs (not quite as bad though). I was showing some irony, but not what you think: if intellectuals want to resist attack, they've got to get their facts right. There's a reason there's such a phrase as "intellectual rigour". If Lightman wasn't challanged on this, many people would think this age was correct.
Your attack on me, simply because I pointed out his error (and then hinted he might not be quite the intellectual he thinks he is), is precisely a version of this "greater attack against intellectualism." Intellectuals should be robust in their arguments and not succumb to sloppy thinking or fact-checking. Attacking the person because he stated that your facts are simply wrong is the behaviour shown by groups such as creationists.
Waddya think? Are any of my facts wrong?
Well, unlike you, I actually read the article instead of trawling through Wikipedia.
"If you look at the Cro-Magnon paintings and caves in Lascaux in France you could see that these people 100,000 years ago were searching for meaning."
And you could have gained some benefit by reading beyond the first paragraph of your link. (He could have, too).
Or cave paintings. The Lascaux paintings are no older than about 20,000 years.
A lot of talk but no intellectual rigour.
You're thinking of trademarks. It's not true with patents. Maybe it should be.
Is this a problem? Surely with a subscription service, your everything is just a list of songs. You can go to another service, or just rejoin the same one some time later and get all your songs back again.
The question to ask is whether the lifetime cost of subscription is more or less than you would have spent buying each track for $0.99 (for now!).
I prefer vinyl anyway...
A spec should be used to write the acceptance tests for the application (and indeed a lot of the unit tests). Documents just sit there and don't tell you when something's wrong - repeatable tests do.
A specificiation should specify how a program behaves to the external world, not how it should be implemented.
So I think I kind of agree with Linus.
Probably more to do with its resale value!
No, the reason you can't buy and download tracks from Apple on the phone is that the cell carriers want to sell you songs. They don't want you using iTunes - they want that action.
The download cost for a song isn't the issue, the standard model used by mobile phone companies is to allow free downloading (i.e. included in the price of the song) for a set period (normally 72 hours) from the time of purchase.
This story is very new and very interesting. String theory needs 11 dimensions to work (in the some formulations) but hasn't got to the point where any predictions could be tested by experiment.
Also, it hasn't beem possible to find a unique theory where our universe naturally 'drops out'. A huge number of different universes (vacua) are predicted and the anthropic principle has to be used to select one we see.
Now suddenly we have a plausible measurement that matches string theory. Information about the extent of the extra dimensions could be used to constrain different versions of the theory and arrive at something with more predictive value.
What you're choosing is how close you want to be to the upper temperature limit of your components.
I'll happily trade off a bit of component lifespan for a nice quite computer.
As for the Zalman fan, it cools better at 1400 rpm (whisper quiet) than most stock heatsink fans at 3500. It's all in the heatsink design.
But the the e-mail contains a link the phishing site. All they have to do is drive the real site with the user id and password, and echo back the pictures and random questions. Then it's "Sorry, website unavailable" while they plunder your account.
If foreign words, e.g. from French, hadn't "crept" into the English language, you really would be speaking (some kind of) German now. English evolved by absorbing words from many languages, and still does.
And, by the way, oxen is from Old English, a language spoken by people who came from Germany. So boxen seems a reasonable thing to say in English.
It's not normal practice to use encryption on 30s WMA previews. Especially since they're often lower bitrates.
The Coast Guard would be an excellent choice. After all, this is piracy!
Try doing some work in telecoms or banking and tell me that Java is dead on the server. There is a huge amount of work out there (I'm in Europe, btw).
Server + unix (Solaris or Linux) + oracle db = java. It's as simple as that.
It's not quite as bad as that. Most WMA download services allow you to retrieve the license 3 times (this can vary depending on the record company).
So with the 2 os changes restriction (which I think is far too stringent) you at least have 6 goes at upgrading your machine.
Also, burning to CD is allowed (usually).
What he's saying is that, in a context switch, you treat the SPES like hardware io and wait for them to finish the assigned task. The thread can simply block on the SPE and give up control to another thread.
Once somebody writes the software (or compilers really)...
Media encoding, cryptography, simulations, and, I guess, anything for which you could use a vector coding paradigm.
It's highly probable that you'll just appear in empty space millions of light years from the nearest star.
Telcos are not interested - they're the ones who drive mpbile phone technology because they give them away. They want to sell you the music.