The SACEM is very much like the RIAA in France, so it is more accurately described as a "rights group" than as a "musicians rights group".
The tax mentioned exists, but wasn't created without an outcry from pretty much everybody in France, which of course didn't prevent the tax from being created. (Lobbies, lobbies everywhere.)
Like many people I highly doubt that any of the money collected this way goes into the pockets of "musicians". It definitely goes into some pockets, though.
I didn't know that the tax applied to hard disk drives, this was the point of hottest debate; I thought the government pulled back on that one.
Last year, Pink Floyd released Dark Side on SACD, 24-bit audio at 48khz / 96khz, the amount of clarity over a CD, once the benchmark, was remarkable, I attended a launch party at was blown away even in a relatively acoustic poor setting
How much of that clarity was due to the excellent sound engineers they probably hired? How much was due to the stage setup, and the excellent speakers and amplifiers they probably had? How did you compare the clarity over a CD? If they offered a comparison, how do you know the CD was a good one, and not a voluntarily dirtied version?
Mouse emulation has been available in XFree86 for a long time (don't remember how much, but long it is). Use Shift+NumLock to enable it (you will hear a beep), use the 1234 6789 number pad keys to move the cursor around, use the/*- number pad keys to select the active mouse button, use the 5 number pad key to click the active mouse button, use Shift+NumLock to disable it (you will hear a beep).
Maybe KDE provides a better interface to that facility, but the functionnality was there already.
I REALLY doubt anyone around here will be interested enough in this topic to read the article as presented.
I have just done that, no problem, great read. How would you like the article presented to you? With big letters and big, bright, shiny pictures? Yep, Mom probably tells better stories than this old man. But when you'll grow up, maybe you'll understand him.
* Slightly melt chocolate chips in your microwave * Measure distance between melted spots * This gives you (half) the wavelength of your oven * Multiply by the frequency of your oven, you get the speed of light
That's certainly interesting, but guess what? Many scientists have done better (and much more expensive) measures, so we already know the speed of light quite well.
What we might not know as well is the frequency of your oven. So I suggest you reverse the above formula, and you measure the frequency of your oven (not always printed on the back, as the article admits) this way.
I have no idea. I seems to run on a personal DSL line in the U.S..
Did you register that just for a Slashdot joke?
Nope. There was a thread on LinuxFr about google-watch.org, and someone also mentioned google-watch-watch.org, and joked about a need for the third level. As soon as I read it, I checked if the domain existed, and it did! Now, I hope the owner will do something funny with it. I'm contemplating creating google-watch-watch-watch-watch to check on his progress.;-)
All their asking is to share a little bit of the cost burden. What's wrong with that?
Maybe the bit will not be little? I can see other problems for third-party clients, such as being restricted to a subset of functionnalities, being forbidden to reverse-engineer other parts of the protocol (if it evolves, for example), well actually all the problems you can have being a licensee to such a corporation, especially since you have no strength on your own and completely rely on the licensor goodwill.
Don't get me wrong however: I think this network is Microsoft's private property, and they can do whatever they want (as long as the FCC doesn't invite itself in - which is perhaps why they're "opening" their network to third-parties).
We still have Jabber, and we cannot lose it, so let's go Jabber!
You don't seriously think that a tab/space/space is the same as tab/tab, do you?
Of course not. But as I understand (and as I do, and probably as the majority of Python programmers does), he meant that he only uses the tab key and the backspace key to indent his code. He has set up his editor so that there's only ONE TYPE OF WHITESPACE in his source files (":set expandtab" in Vim).
Besides, whitespace is not necessarily invisible. Using ":set list" in Vim can reveal the different types of whitespace in your file, and is very useful to spot trailing whitespaces, tabs and other problems.
Huh... virtually silent? Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how a large block of aluminum can be anything more than completely silent.;)
It's not just a large block of aluminium: There's liquid in parts of the cooler. I sure hope it is also completely silent, too. What really matters is that there are no mechanical pieces involved, so your point remains valid.
From my end-user point of view, the vast improvement from ISA to PCI cards was that the card logic went from the top side to the bottom side of the card. Sure, it doesn't help cooling, but it helps prevent dusting! I just hate to clean those ISA cards.
This particular code needs to be commented. Just a little bit. Not to tell me how an If statement works, or what HomeTeam.HomeBonus means. Just for one thing actually: why are the tests for HomeTeam.HomeBonus written this way?:
If HomeTeam.HomeBonus <= 8 Then ... ElseIf HomeTeam.HomeBonus > 8 Then ... End If
I want to know why he didn't use an Else statement. Is there a problem in the VB implementation, is this to work around a bug? Inquiring mind wants to know.
All the other lines I understand without problem. I just need to know what the values of GstrMatchType mean (but this is probably explained in his docs or elsewhere in the code) and what GstrHB means (probably explained at the line where it is declared).
Now, if either the values of GstrMatchType or the meaning of GstrHB are unexplained, then we have a comments/documentation problem... and a pretty badly chosen code sample.
Displaying raw HTML code is the default, and I like it.
interpreting HTML but not allowing it to run JavaScript, Java, or cause anything to load from a server is also available, and easy to set up, too (four clicks total: open configuration dialog box, click on Security, click on Prefer HTML to raw text, click on ok).
You can also have KMail load images from servers (but they warn you against that). You can't have KMail run JavaScript, Java or whatever.
The mistaken belief that GIF has a limit of 256 colors probably comes from the way GIF was first used when it came out.
Err, I would say this belief comes from someplace else, like... the GIF specification. GIF has been designed for 256 colors, as the Global Color Table and Local Color Table (which are made a of power-of-two number of entries limited to 256) clearly show.
The site you mention is the homepage for a hack. Yes, a clever dude can create GIFs that look like they have more than 256 colors... but the fact is, such a GIF is made of many 256-colors images. Totally inefficient, compared to PNG, as the author of the hack admits, at the bottom of his page.
That said, there's another well-known GIF hack, which also uses several images per GIF: animated GIF. Let's not forget that, as the spec says, The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation, even though it can be done in a limited way.
So, let's hope the nightmare doesn't come true, and that horrible multi-image true-color true-Bad GIFs begin to be popular.
I liked to see their punctured skin. Not that I find this appealing, but it gave me any idea of how much they can be a constant reminder of one's Matrixist past. You can't really forget the war you're in with them everywhere on your skin...
The Architect said there have been six "Neos" before. This doesn't mean they look like him. Neos are an abnormality, they have to reach the Architect. This is this way, because the Architect can't find them himself. He doesn't find the bug, the bug comes to him, that's how he handled the imperfection.
If all Neos looked the same, he would just go at them straight on.
All the small Neos on the wall are probably sub-threads of the current one. It's easy to copy some data and run a part of the program...
Considering that minds can easily be written to in the Zion world (e.g. when learning quickly how to pilot a copter), I don't find it too hard to believe that something from the Matrix could write into the minds of Zionists. They probably have some defence against that, but then again, Smith is a unique program now, it has some traces of Neo left inside him.
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The SACEM is very much like the RIAA in France, so it is more accurately described as a "rights group" than as a "musicians rights group".
The tax mentioned exists, but wasn't created without an outcry from pretty much everybody in France, which of course didn't prevent the tax from being created. (Lobbies, lobbies everywhere.)
Like many people I highly doubt that any of the money collected this way goes into the pockets of "musicians". It definitely goes into some pockets, though.
I didn't know that the tax applied to hard disk drives, this was the point of hottest debate; I thought the government pulled back on that one.
Last year, Pink Floyd released Dark Side on SACD, 24-bit audio at 48khz / 96khz, the amount of clarity over a CD, once the benchmark, was remarkable, I attended a launch party at was blown away even in a relatively acoustic poor setting
How much of that clarity was due to the excellent sound engineers they probably hired? How much was due to the stage setup, and the excellent speakers and amplifiers they probably had? How did you compare the clarity over a CD? If they offered a comparison, how do you know the CD was a good one, and not a voluntarily dirtied version?
I for one am very wary of launch parties.
Mouse emulation has been available in XFree86 for a long time (don't remember how much, but long it is). Use Shift+NumLock to enable it (you will hear a beep), use the 1234 6789 number pad keys to move the cursor around, use the /*- number pad keys to select the active mouse button, use the 5 number pad key to click the active mouse button, use Shift+NumLock to disable it (you will hear a beep).
Maybe KDE provides a better interface to that facility, but the functionnality was there already.
Please release it. I don't want that libcaca shitty name to stick around. ;-)
I REALLY doubt anyone around here will be interested enough in this topic to read the article as presented.
I have just done that, no problem, great read. How would you like the article presented to you? With big letters and big, bright, shiny pictures? Yep, Mom probably tells better stories than this old man. But when you'll grow up, maybe you'll understand him.
This experiment is intended for discovery, not measuring the speed of light to the 10,000 of a meter.
Absolutely. That's why I'm interested in measuring the frequency of my microwave oven.
Summary of the method used in the article:
* Slightly melt chocolate chips in your microwave
* Measure distance between melted spots
* This gives you (half) the wavelength of your oven
* Multiply by the frequency of your oven, you get the speed of light
That's certainly interesting, but guess what? Many scientists have done better (and much more expensive) measures, so we already know the speed of light quite well.
What we might not know as well is the frequency of your oven. So I suggest you reverse the above formula, and you measure the frequency of your oven (not always printed on the back, as the article admits) this way.
Where the heck did that come from?
;-)
I have no idea. I seems to run on a personal DSL line in the U.S..
Did you register that just for a Slashdot joke?
Nope. There was a thread on LinuxFr about google-watch.org, and someone also mentioned google-watch-watch.org, and joked about a need for the third level. As soon as I read it, I checked if the domain existed, and it did! Now, I hope the owner will do something funny with it. I'm contemplating creating google-watch-watch-watch-watch to check on his progress.
And then don't forget google-watch-watch-watch!
All their asking is to share a little bit of the cost burden. What's wrong with that?
Maybe the bit will not be little? I can see other problems for third-party clients, such as being restricted to a subset of functionnalities, being forbidden to reverse-engineer other parts of the protocol (if it evolves, for example), well actually all the problems you can have being a licensee to such a corporation, especially since you have no strength on your own and completely rely on the licensor goodwill.
Don't get me wrong however: I think this network is Microsoft's private property, and they can do whatever they want (as long as the FCC doesn't invite itself in - which is perhaps why they're "opening" their network to third-parties).
We still have Jabber, and we cannot lose it, so let's go Jabber!
I didn't realize gzip could concatenate files. How does that work? Just cat the resulting files together?
Absolutely. Read the "Advanced Usage" section of its manual page.
You don't seriously think that a tab/space/space is the same as tab/tab, do you?
Of course not. But as I understand (and as I do, and probably as the majority of Python programmers does), he meant that he only uses the tab key and the backspace key to indent his code. He has set up his editor so that there's only ONE TYPE OF WHITESPACE in his source files (":set expandtab" in Vim).
Besides, whitespace is not necessarily invisible. Using ":set list" in Vim can reveal the different types of whitespace in your file, and is very useful to spot trailing whitespaces, tabs and other problems.
You should use sts=4 instead of ts=4. ts is best left to 8.
Huh... virtually silent? Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how a large block of aluminum can be anything more than completely silent. ;)
It's not just a large block of aluminium: There's liquid in parts of the cooler. I sure hope it is also completely silent, too. What really matters is that there are no mechanical pieces involved, so your point remains valid.
From my end-user point of view, the vast improvement from ISA to PCI cards was that the card logic went from the top side to the bottom side of the card. Sure, it doesn't help cooling, but it helps prevent dusting! I just hate to clean those ISA cards.
This particular code needs to be commented. Just a little bit. Not to tell me how an If statement works, or what HomeTeam.HomeBonus means. Just for one thing actually: why are the tests for HomeTeam.HomeBonus written this way?:
I want to know why he didn't use an Else statement. Is there a problem in the VB implementation, is this to work around a bug? Inquiring mind wants to know.
All the other lines I understand without problem. I just need to know what the values of GstrMatchType mean (but this is probably explained in his docs or elsewhere in the code) and what GstrHB means (probably explained at the line where it is declared).
Now, if either the values of GstrMatchType or the meaning of GstrHB are unexplained, then we have a comments/documentation problem... and a pretty badly chosen code sample.
Displaying raw HTML code is the default, and I like it.
interpreting HTML but not allowing it to run JavaScript, Java, or cause anything to load from a server is also available, and easy to set up, too (four clicks total: open configuration dialog box, click on Security, click on Prefer HTML to raw text, click on ok).
You can also have KMail load images from servers (but they warn you against that). You can't have KMail run JavaScript, Java or whatever.
Hypersonic bombers able to blow anything anywhere anytime. That's so what the world needs!
America, leading the way as usual. To where?
It's pronounced PiNG. Come on /., just ping your whole website!
The mistaken belief that GIF has a limit of 256 colors probably comes from the way GIF was first used when it came out.
Err, I would say this belief comes from someplace else, like... the GIF specification. GIF has been designed for 256 colors, as the Global Color Table and Local Color Table (which are made a of power-of-two number of entries limited to 256) clearly show.
The site you mention is the homepage for a hack. Yes, a clever dude can create GIFs that look like they have more than 256 colors... but the fact is, such a GIF is made of many 256-colors images. Totally inefficient, compared to PNG, as the author of the hack admits, at the bottom of his page.
That said, there's another well-known GIF hack, which also uses several images per GIF: animated GIF. Let's not forget that, as the spec says, The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation, even though it can be done in a limited way.
So, let's hope the nightmare doesn't come true, and that horrible multi-image true-color true-Bad GIFs begin to be popular.
PNG is better than GIF in every technical aspect.
GIF Spec: here
I know people who never get up before 3pm in the morning. They sure know how to party.
I liked to see their punctured skin. Not that I find this appealing, but it gave me any idea of how much they can be a constant reminder of one's Matrixist past. You can't really forget the war you're in with them everywhere on your skin...
You call that mild dance an orgy? LOL!
The Architect said there have been six "Neos" before. This doesn't mean they look like him. Neos are an abnormality, they have to reach the Architect. This is this way, because the Architect can't find them himself. He doesn't find the bug, the bug comes to him, that's how he handled the imperfection.
If all Neos looked the same, he would just go at them straight on.
All the small Neos on the wall are probably sub-threads of the current one. It's easy to copy some data and run a part of the program...
Considering that minds can easily be written to in the Zion world (e.g. when learning quickly how to pilot a copter), I don't find it too hard to believe that something from the Matrix could write into the minds of Zionists. They probably have some defence against that, but then again, Smith is a unique program now, it has some traces of Neo left inside him.