It IS a conspiracy against Ogg Vorbis. AFAIK Ogg Vorbis supports "only" 255 channels of sound. This seems to need 300 to 400 channels. They ARE trying to undermine Ogg Vorbis.
What do I get for being the second person to point it out?
Simple. HP is not making this computer to make each and every African child computer literate.
HP is making this computer to give a less expensive option for low-budget schools.
Do not go trolling around saying the Africans need to have a decent power supply before they can use these computers. This computer might be perfect for those that do.
It computes the answer to life, the universe, everything in a fraction of a second.
However, I suspect the people at Google cheated. I have a strong feeling they must have found out the answer from one of the other supercomputers, probably built by, who knows, mice. It can happen.
I think they yould prefer it if you e-mail your complaints to them. This is for your own convenience... no more waiting in long queues to complain: just drop an e-mail.
They also encourage mass petitions by e-mail. You write a small e-mail with the complaints, forward it to your friends with a cc to IFSS (or even just your favoirite spammer), ask your friends to do the same.
The more people you forward to, the faster IFSS will respond.
They have put cameras in the Indian parliament. I have seen that politicians do behave like dumb (mute, in this context) animals. I think I also remember seeing (on TV) Japanese ministers LITERALLY bashing each other, throwing furniture and punches at each other.
Maybe just showing such videos to chimps would have them behaving like our politicians in no time.
What would I rather vote for? An politician or a chimp? I dunno...
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Methane on Mars?
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"humans emit little or no methane when they pass gas."
What are you talking about? Michael Mumma already admitted he did it. Reference: "The leader of the ground based astronomy team, Michael Mumma of the Goddard Space Flight Center, when asked if the methane was biological in origin, said 'I think it is myself, personally.'"
SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under.
They are attacking Satan Himself. Anyway, why are they under the impression the "people down under" would use linux? I do believe they are running pirated version of SCO Unix. Of course, not having worked for SCO, I do not have first-hand information on what software people of the nether-world would use.
Lest I get trolled down, let me make it clear I am neither on Microsoft's side nor on Eolas' side. I am simply against the idiots in the USPTO.
This is the case Eolas can make: If the grant for the patent was a vaild one, the USPTO has no right to reject the patent. The point I am making is: what's the point of registering a patent if you know that by some arbitrary decesion of the USPTO the patent can be recalled? Doesn't the USPTO know what is worthy of patenting and what is not? If it doesn't, it has no right to exist.
I don't know if one has to pay extra if the patent is accepted, I mean in addition to the patent application charges. But if one does have to pay extra after the patent has been accepted, Eolas should ask for a refund (and maybe punitive damages).
If the USPTO is not made accountable for its actions, it will continue to make arbitrary grants of patents. Hey, what have they got to lose?
Oh, by the way, I did not RTFA. I am on slashdot, right?;-)
Since so many people have already explained why it is morally wrong to give tax rebates on donations to OS, I will skip that part and bring your notice to the fact that this would also be easy for money launderers to exploit.
Some people would set up dummy companies that release some pretty useless stuff as OSS or Free software. Some greedy and rich people would then "donate" to such dummy companies and get a tax rebate. The owners of the dummy companies would unofficially return a huge portion of the money back... retaining an amount less than the tax cut the "donater" received. This way both the "donater" and the "donatee" get rich quick.
I fully agree with you... they should be punished! Why should any government with its citizens' rights in mind allow any OS to include stupid, un-necessary or plain evil software like media players, browsers, bitmap editors, text editors and card games?
How will the makers of other text editors and card games survive if the Big Bully Microsoft starts bundling these with the OS and refuse to take it off?
Notepad is such a sick editor. How can I possibly use a better editor if my system comes bundled with stupid old notepad?
Down with solitaire! Down with notepad! Down with Microsoft!
"Another japanese technological miracle. Stick one finger in your ear and talk to another and look like a complete twat to everyone within close proximity."
Right... especially if your friend with you wants to borrow your phone for a minute to make an urgent phone call... with yor finger in his ear!
Why would anyone want to pretend that they like her 'music' but are busy elsewhere? I think this is more useful for people who like her 'music'.... they can listen to her stuff and pretend they are on the phone with someone.
American books to hurt Indian authors/publishers? That is one of the most ridiculous theories I have ever heard.
I am an Electronics Engineer.
In general, in my field, Indian authors/publishers don't offer any competition to American ones. Have you come across a book on programming in C by Balagurusamy, an author from IIT? A few programs given there don't even compile!
Have you come across text books by Mittal & Mittal on various fields in circuits? They are the cheaper plagiarized versions of infinitely better books by Millman, Halkias and Taub.
When you said "the truth is...", how exactly did you arrive at this "truth"? When you come here, you will realize that no self respecting student reads the crap by most Indian authors.
Don't get me wrong... there are some excellent books by Indian authors. But, I assure you, such authors are a rare minority. But even their books are published by American publishers like "Tata McGraw Hill" and "Prentice Hall India".
Students plagiarizing? Bah! That's nothing! Lecturers plagiarize here in India! A few of the text books we were prescribed for our Electronics courses were messy copies of infinitely better books by Millman, Taub and Halkias. Our mathematics exam papers were 'remixes' of previous exam papers which, in turn, were mostly clean reproductions of practice excercises in our text books.
Actually the subject should have been '"Translation" of "symbol" section'. The original matter is in English too... it just seems to be written out in the Greek alphabet.
Slashdot Mirror
It IS a conspiracy against Ogg Vorbis. AFAIK Ogg Vorbis supports "only" 255 channels of sound. This seems to need 300 to 400 channels. They ARE trying to undermine Ogg Vorbis.
What do I get for being the second person to point it out?
Simple. HP is not making this computer to make each and every African child computer literate.
HP is making this computer to give a less expensive option for low-budget schools.
Do not go trolling around saying the Africans need to have a decent power supply before they can use these computers. This computer might be perfect for those that do.
It computes the answer to life, the universe, everything in a fraction of a second. However, I suspect the people at Google cheated. I have a strong feeling they must have found out the answer from one of the other supercomputers, probably built by, who knows, mice. It can happen.
"defenive patents" is an oxymoron. Patents are never defensive. They give you an exclusive "right" to something.
A well meaning company does defensive diclosures, not "defensive patents".
I think they yould prefer it if you e-mail your complaints to them. This is for your own convenience... no more waiting in long queues to complain: just drop an e-mail.
They also encourage mass petitions by e-mail. You write a small e-mail with the complaints, forward it to your friends with a cc to IFSS (or even just your favoirite spammer), ask your friends to do the same.
The more people you forward to, the faster IFSS will respond.
I have no idea if I am trying to be funny...
They have put cameras in the Indian parliament. I have seen that politicians do behave like dumb (mute, in this context) animals. I think I also remember seeing (on TV) Japanese ministers LITERALLY bashing each other, throwing furniture and punches at each other.
Maybe just showing such videos to chimps would have them behaving like our politicians in no time.
What would I rather vote for? An politician or a chimp? I dunno...
On RMS's behalf I would like inform you that Emacs is the perfect option for both text editor and user interface. KDE and Gnome WIMPs are for wimps.
When is April 1st in their time-zone?
"humans emit little or no methane when they pass gas."
What are you talking about? Michael Mumma already admitted he did it. Reference: "The leader of the ground based astronomy team, Michael Mumma of the Goddard Space Flight Center, when asked if the methane was biological in origin, said 'I think it is myself, personally.'"
The force^W source is with you.
Yikes... the title should have been: Who would have thought the day would come.
SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under.
They are attacking Satan Himself. Anyway, why are they under the impression the "people down under" would use linux? I do believe they are running pirated version of SCO Unix. Of course, not having worked for SCO, I do not have first-hand information on what software people of the nether-world would use.
Lest I get trolled down, let me make it clear I am neither on Microsoft's side nor on Eolas' side. I am simply against the idiots in the USPTO.
;-)
This is the case Eolas can make: If the grant for the patent was a vaild one, the USPTO has no right to reject the patent. The point I am making is: what's the point of registering a patent if you know that by some arbitrary decesion of the USPTO the patent can be recalled? Doesn't the USPTO know what is worthy of patenting and what is not? If it doesn't, it has no right to exist.
I don't know if one has to pay extra if the patent is accepted, I mean in addition to the patent application charges. But if one does have to pay extra after the patent has been accepted, Eolas should ask for a refund (and maybe punitive damages).
If the USPTO is not made accountable for its actions, it will continue to make arbitrary grants of patents. Hey, what have they got to lose?
Oh, by the way, I did not RTFA. I am on slashdot, right?
You're right. Anyway, MSN Search is as relevant a search engine as the Queen of England as a leader of a few nations.
The other comments / observations are too obvious to read.
Um... what is fake music? How different is it from "real" music?
careful of an old woman?
Since so many people have already explained why it is morally wrong to give tax rebates on donations to OS, I will skip that part and bring your notice to the fact that this would also be easy for money launderers to exploit.
Some people would set up dummy companies that release some pretty useless stuff as OSS or Free software. Some greedy and rich people would then "donate" to such dummy companies and get a tax rebate. The owners of the dummy companies would unofficially return a huge portion of the money back... retaining an amount less than the tax cut the "donater" received. This way both the "donater" and the "donatee" get rich quick.
I fully agree with you... they should be punished! Why should any government with its citizens' rights in mind allow any OS to include stupid, un-necessary or plain evil software like media players, browsers, bitmap editors, text editors and card games?
How will the makers of other text editors and card games survive if the Big Bully Microsoft starts bundling these with the OS and refuse to take it off?
Notepad is such a sick editor. How can I possibly use a better editor if my system comes bundled with stupid old notepad?
Down with solitaire!
Down with notepad!
Down with Microsoft!
"Another japanese technological miracle. Stick one finger in your ear and talk to another and look like a complete twat to everyone within close proximity."
Right... especially if your friend with you wants to borrow your phone for a minute to make an urgent phone call... with yor finger in his ear!
Why would anyone want to pretend that they like her 'music' but are busy elsewhere? I think this is more useful for people who like her 'music'.... they can listen to her stuff and pretend they are on the phone with someone.
Maybe I am going off on a tangent, but...
American books to hurt Indian authors/publishers? That is one of the most ridiculous theories I have ever heard.
I am an Electronics Engineer.
In general, in my field, Indian authors/publishers don't offer any competition to American ones. Have you come across a book on programming in C by Balagurusamy, an author from IIT? A few programs given there don't even compile!
Have you come across text books by Mittal & Mittal on various fields in circuits? They are the cheaper plagiarized versions of infinitely better books by Millman, Halkias and Taub.
When you said "the truth is...", how exactly did you arrive at this "truth"? When you come here, you will realize that no self respecting student reads the crap by most Indian authors.
Don't get me wrong... there are some excellent books by Indian authors. But, I assure you, such authors are a rare minority. But even their books are published by American publishers like "Tata McGraw Hill" and "Prentice Hall India".
it is still just a turing machine... one set of inputs+known state=one output only
Am I missing something? The software will still give it the same appearance, right?
Students plagiarizing? Bah! That's nothing! Lecturers plagiarize here in India! A few of the text books we were prescribed for our Electronics courses were messy copies of infinitely better books by Millman, Taub and Halkias.
Our mathematics exam papers were 'remixes' of previous exam papers which, in turn, were mostly clean reproductions of practice excercises in our text books.
Actually the subject should have been '"Translation" of "symbol" section'. The original matter is in English too... it just seems to be written out in the Greek alphabet.