Don't you just love these guys.. They'll try everything possible within the law, then pretty much everything that loads of money can buy which is slightly outside of the law, then pretty much everything outside of the law.
And when that doesn't work, they start asking their paid for political buddies to help them out with some 'overseas' troubles..
Absolutely incredible..
The only conclusion that I have reached during the years of the Microsoft monopoly cases is that the law is totally broken.
The language is pretty basic, but can be useful for prototyping.
However, speed is the major downfall. Last time I ported an algorithm from Matlab to C++ (using Blitz++), the resulting C++ code was 20 times quicker to execute.
Any serious algorithm work with Matlab requires objects written in native C and called from the Matlab interface.
It's even worse than this.. The origins of Mathworks was an open source system created by an academic and improved by other contributors.
One day a business man came along and convinced the creator to leave academia in order to exploit his open source creation by closing the source and selling it to existing users.
Ten years later, Mathworks is a semi-monopoly in numeric computing in academia.
It's not a gimmick at all. It's actually a product based on years of signal processing research.
With regards to how many speakers are needed, the more speakers used, the more control one has in forming the acoustic wave field via signal processing techniques.
It all boils down to error minimisation techniques - given a desired sound field and a set of acoustique sources, minmise the difference between the desired field and the combined field output by the acoustique sources.
It took millions of years for the world's oil to be created. Humans are desperately trying to burn it all in a single century.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that, irrelevant to environmental reports, sucking all the oil out in a single century is a stupid thing to be doing.
Hmmm, where can we get energy from? Well, it's not as if there were a giant nuclear reactor just sitting there in space sending us free energy is there? Oh wait.. yes there is.
A dollar a watt isn't bad -- even if you factor in the extra two dollars you need for decommissioning. Solar in bulk costs three or four US dollars a watt...
So the implication here is that given the choice between nuclear ($3) and solar ($3-4), we should pick the potentially dangerous choice. Yes, that really does make perfect sense.
1. Sell dodgy and potentially dangerous idea by talking up the product and withholding the truth. 2. Makes lots of money in the short term. 3. Make sure you've sold your shares before the shit hits the fan.
This article is step 1. Welcome to the world of modern capitalism.
But the facts are still solidly against them, and they will be annihilated in court no matter how much money they have.
Since when have the US courts used facts in the decision making process? I was under the impression that the more money and expensive lawyers one has, the more a case can be dragged out, up to the point where the truth is twisted to such an extent that the side with the most money wins.
You're describing the way it's implemented in MS Windows. It's a little different on 9.2 (KDE - don't know about Gnome). If you click/double click on the icon you select the icon/launch the file. If you click on the name below, you immediately edit the name.
The only problems I've had (very occasional lockups) started after I installed the nvidia drivers. Shame really, since I might as well not have a fast graphics card if I use the xfree nvidia driver.
Well done. Your words effervesce the opinion of someone who clearly does not have the intelligence to understand the reality behind our society's corporate brainwashing.
If you bothered to try to understand the reality underneath the marketing, you would perhaps realise that the philosophy of RMS and other like minded people is what has brought about the start of the change towards a better society.
And if you don't like it? Use a different client/protocol like Jabber.
I love it when people firmly state their naive opinions to the world.
The whole point of this is choice, or rather the lack of it. Companies like Microsoft form their markets by restricting choice and thereby forcing the masses (no, this does not mean your average hacker type) to use their product.
If all your contacts are on one protocol, you can either use the same protocol, or you can't communicate. There is no choice available.
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The european parlement has approved on wednesday the highly contested directive regarding the patentability of software inventions, after having amended it to limit its field of application to "real inventions" having a technical reach.
The text, presented in the first reading, has been approved with 364 for, 153 against and 33 abstentions.
It clearly details the propostion of the European Commission, who establishes a distinction between pure software, known to be non patentable within european rights, and "inventions implemented with a computer", which would be patentable, with the condition that a technical advancement is introduced, which is likely to have an industrial application.
The original text was judged burred and ambiguous by a large number of MPs who were afraid that it would open a too large path of the hold of patents over software, to the risk of causing a slowdown on innovation in this key domain of the economy.
The eurodeputes have added a paragraph making precise that an "invention put in to use by a computer (a software application) is not considered to introduce a technical contribution just because il implies the usage of a computer".
Clearly, for a software application to be patentable, it is not sufficient that it is new, it is also necessary that it permits an independant technical innovation of its own.
Another amendment makes clear that the use of a patented technique is not considered to be an imitation if it is necessary to assure the communication between different systems or computer networks.
It is up to the eurodeputes to prevent the monopoly which certain software giants could exert on computer networks; Microsoft not being named but probably aimed at.
The european parlement being co-legistator in this domain which raises the domestic market, the text must now be examined by the Conseil des ministres, before returning for a second reading at Strasbourg.
The european commissioner in charge of the domestic market, Fritz Bolkestein, had warned the eurodeputes on tuesday at the time of the debate on the "unaccetable" character of a certain number of amendements lodged.
As long as big business is funding politics, there's little chance of such a thing happening in a big scale, regardless of how beneficially it would be.
Conversely, in countries without such a strong link between politics and business (presumably this applies mainly to less developed countries), isn't this already happening?
DON'T buy a widescreen Sony TV if you don't like buzzing noises whilst watching at lower volumes.
I wish I hadn't bought mine late last year. I'm just coming to the end of 6 months of waiting for Sony to decide what to do with my 28" 100hz widescreen TV which has been sitting in the shop all this time.
Shortly after buying it, I asked the dealer to sort out an annoying buzz that was coming from the deflector yoke and was annoying when watching TV at lower volume levels. After six months of stalling, Sony finally decided to repurchase the television since they seem to have decided that they are unable to supplying me one that doesn't have the aforementioned loud enough to be annoying buzzing sound. Apparently, all their larger widescreen TVs do this. Sounds to me like a quality control issue.
If you're the sort of person that likes to watch stuff that has quieter scenes as well as loud hollywood action, my advice is to stay away from a Sony.
I'm sorry.. maybe it's just me. This reads more like an advertisement than a book review. Did the reviewer say one critical thing about the book at all?
Basically, sound waves are non-linear. It's just that at the levels that we listen to them, the pressure fluctuations are small compared to atmospheric pressure that the non-linearities are very small; so small that acoustical engineers don't bother calculating them unless they are working with something like rockets or something else really really loud.
This system uses a very loud ultrasonic wave to generate non-linearities in the air. In order to do this, the ultrasonic wave has to be much louder than say the sound that a normal loudspeaker would produce. We don't hear the ultrasonic wave because it's over twice the frequency of our hearing limit. What we hear with this device is actually the byproduct of the sound production, which is something we would not normally hear with a normal audio frequency transducer because the non-linearities are normally too small.
In conclusion, this device hammers out really loud ultrasonic waves at you in order to generate really quiet audiable byproducts. Presumably, it's only able to generate enough SPL due to the beamwidth of the ultrasonic wave being so narrow.
Once upon a time there were such things as "Unions" which voiced the opions of employees. They were one of the first things to go when the corporations achieved critical mass.
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Expressing an opinion, or trying to manipulate other people in order to further his own distorted casuse? The difference is often subtle.
Wow, finally I read a comment from someone in touch with reality.
Don't you just love these guys.. They'll try everything possible within the law, then pretty much everything that loads of money can buy which is slightly outside of the law, then pretty much everything outside of the law.
And when that doesn't work, they start asking their paid for political buddies to help them out with some 'overseas' troubles..
Absolutely incredible..
The only conclusion that I have reached during the years of the Microsoft monopoly cases is that the law is totally broken.
The language is pretty basic, but can be useful for prototyping.
However, speed is the major downfall. Last time I ported an algorithm from Matlab to C++ (using Blitz++), the resulting C++ code was 20 times quicker to execute.
Any serious algorithm work with Matlab requires objects written in native C and called from the Matlab interface.
It's even worse than this.. The origins of Mathworks was an open source system created by an academic and improved by other contributors.
One day a business man came along and convinced the creator to leave academia in order to exploit his open source creation by closing the source and selling it to existing users.
Ten years later, Mathworks is a semi-monopoly in numeric computing in academia.
It's not a gimmick at all. It's actually a product based on years of signal processing research.
With regards to how many speakers are needed, the more speakers used, the more control one has in forming the acoustic wave field via signal processing techniques.
It all boils down to error minimisation techniques - given a desired sound field and a set of acoustique sources, minmise the difference between the desired field and the combined field output by the acoustique sources.
If it interests you, you can read about various virtual acoustics technology at the ISVR website:
http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/FDAG/VAP/index.htm
It took millions of years for the world's oil to be created. Humans are desperately trying to burn it all in a single century.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that, irrelevant to environmental reports, sucking all the oil out in a single century is a stupid thing to be doing.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
What a load of crap.
Hmmm, where can we get energy from? Well, it's not as if there were a giant nuclear reactor just sitting there in space sending us free energy is there? Oh wait.. yes there is.
A dollar a watt isn't bad -- even if you factor in the extra two dollars you need for decommissioning. Solar in bulk costs three or four US dollars a watt...
So the implication here is that given the choice between nuclear ($3) and solar ($3-4), we should pick the potentially dangerous choice. Yes, that really does make perfect sense.
Don't you know the rules of modern business?
1. Sell dodgy and potentially dangerous idea by talking up the product and withholding the truth.
2. Makes lots of money in the short term.
3. Make sure you've sold your shares before the shit hits the fan.
This article is step 1. Welcome to the world of modern capitalism.
Maybe that's the whole point. The majority of people are not drawn by the kernel, however important it may well be.
But the facts are still solidly against them, and they will be annihilated in court no matter how much money they have.
Since when have the US courts used facts in the decision making process? I was under the impression that the more money and expensive lawyers one has, the more a case can be dragged out, up to the point where the truth is twisted to such an extent that the side with the most money wins.
troll-troll troll-troll..
You're describing the way it's implemented in MS Windows. It's a little different on 9.2 (KDE - don't know about Gnome). If you click/double click on the icon you select the icon/launch the file. If you click on the name below, you immediately edit the name.
The only problems I've had (very occasional lockups) started after I installed the nvidia drivers. Shame really, since I might as well not have a fast graphics card if I use the xfree nvidia driver.
Well you could just join the club and you could download the isos straight away.
Well done. Your words effervesce the opinion of someone who clearly does not have the intelligence to understand the reality behind our society's corporate brainwashing.
If you bothered to try to understand the reality underneath the marketing, you would perhaps realise that the philosophy of RMS and other like minded people is what has brought about the start of the change towards a better society.
And if you don't like it? Use a different client/protocol like Jabber.
I love it when people firmly state their naive opinions to the world.
The whole point of this is choice, or rather the lack of it. Companies like Microsoft form their markets by restricting choice and thereby forcing the masses (no, this does not mean your average hacker type) to use their product.
If all your contacts are on one protocol, you can either use the same protocol, or you can't communicate. There is no choice available.
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The european parlement has approved on wednesday the highly contested directive regarding the patentability of software inventions, after having amended it to limit its field of application to "real inventions" having a technical reach.
The text, presented in the first reading, has been approved with 364 for, 153 against and 33 abstentions.
It clearly details the propostion of the European Commission, who establishes a distinction between pure software, known to be non patentable within european rights, and "inventions implemented with a computer", which would be patentable, with the condition that a technical advancement is introduced, which is likely to have an industrial application.
The original text was judged burred and ambiguous by a large number of MPs who were afraid that it would open a too large path of the hold of patents over software, to the risk of causing a slowdown on innovation in this key domain of the economy.
The eurodeputes have added a paragraph making precise that an "invention put in to use by a computer (a software application) is not considered to introduce a technical contribution just because il implies the usage of a computer".
Clearly, for a software application to be patentable, it is not sufficient that it is new, it is also necessary that it permits an independant technical innovation of its own.
Another amendment makes clear that the use of a patented technique is not considered to be an imitation if it is necessary to assure the communication between different systems or computer networks.
It is up to the eurodeputes to prevent the monopoly which certain software giants could exert on computer networks; Microsoft not being named but probably aimed at.
The european parlement being co-legistator in this domain which raises the domestic market, the text must now be examined by the Conseil des ministres, before returning for a second reading at Strasbourg.
The european commissioner in charge of the domestic market, Fritz Bolkestein, had warned the eurodeputes on tuesday at the time of the debate on the "unaccetable" character of a certain number of amendements lodged.
As long as big business is funding politics, there's little chance of such a thing happening in a big scale, regardless of how beneficially it would be.
Conversely, in countries without such a strong link between politics and business (presumably this applies mainly to less developed countries), isn't this already happening?
DON'T buy a widescreen Sony TV if you don't like buzzing noises whilst watching at lower volumes.
I wish I hadn't bought mine late last year. I'm just coming to the end of 6 months of waiting for Sony to decide what to do with my 28" 100hz widescreen TV which has been sitting in the shop all this time.
Shortly after buying it, I asked the dealer to sort out an annoying buzz that was coming from the deflector yoke and was annoying when watching TV at lower volume levels. After six months of stalling, Sony finally decided to repurchase the television since they seem to have decided that they are unable to supplying me one that doesn't have the aforementioned loud enough to be annoying buzzing sound. Apparently, all their larger widescreen TVs do this. Sounds to me like a quality control issue.
If you're the sort of person that likes to watch stuff that has quieter scenes as well as loud hollywood action, my advice is to stay away from a Sony.
I'm sorry.. maybe it's just me. This reads more like an advertisement than a book review. Did the reviewer say one critical thing about the book at all?
Basically, sound waves are non-linear. It's just that at the levels that we listen to them, the pressure fluctuations are small compared to atmospheric pressure that the non-linearities are very small; so small that acoustical engineers don't bother calculating them unless they are working with something like rockets or something else really really loud.
This system uses a very loud ultrasonic wave to generate non-linearities in the air. In order to do this, the ultrasonic wave has to be much louder than say the sound that a normal loudspeaker would produce. We don't hear the ultrasonic wave because it's over twice the frequency of our hearing limit. What we hear with this device is actually the byproduct of the sound production, which is something we would not normally hear with a normal audio frequency transducer because the non-linearities are normally too small.
In conclusion, this device hammers out really loud ultrasonic waves at you in order to generate really quiet audiable byproducts. Presumably, it's only able to generate enough SPL due to the beamwidth of the ultrasonic wave being so narrow.
Once upon a time there were such things as "Unions" which voiced the opions of employees. They were one of the first things to go when the corporations achieved critical mass.