I will make sure the next player I buy supports Ogg - but until it breaks or I lose it down the back of the sofa, I'm stuck with my old player which works quite nicely, albeit only with MP3s.
Unfortunately I'm sticking with MP3
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I agree that Ogg is a better format, better quality sound for similar bitrates to MP3, but until the portable devices I use, in-car CD/MP3 players, etc. accept the Ogg format as readily as they do MP3, then I (like most people) are stuck with the MP3 format. At least nowdays storage is cheap, so I whack everything to MP3 at a high bitrate.
I can imagine the source video material quality may be quite critical to this. It would be much easier to process a signal from a DVD, for example, than a composite video camera.
But then on a DVD you'd just hit the subtitle button and problem sorted:)
Go onto eBay and sell them cheaper. And of course you can rightly claim how it's from the official source and how others are posting them unofficially. Make enough money to cover your costs and eventually he'll get the point and give up. A lot of hard effort, but I would imagine a lot less effort then you get yourself wound up in by unleashing the Dogs of Law.
It's quite interesting to see how much carbon is being soaked up by the oceans. Much of this carbon eventually ends up as deposits on the sea floor and, after millions of years, limestone. It may be a lower amount of carbon intake than the forests, but then forest fires and biological action on dead trees can eventually release a percentage of the carbon that's trapped by trees.
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Just in the same way that you can take a piece of paper and paint a masterpiece onto it, or you can print a pizza leaflet onto it. The existence of pizza leaflets doesn't mean that paper can never be used for art.
Jolyon
Ah yes, but in Microsoft Manhole Cover Service Pack 3 they have solved the 'falling down hole' problem by filling up the hole with dirt before putting cover back on.
I have a 1Gb SCSI drive sitting on a desk in the office here, it's 5.25" form factor, full height, pulled out of an old server.
Seeing the photo of this new drive has made me think it's probably time to throw it away! (Unless anyone near Croydon, UK, wants to come and take it! - unlikely!)
Unfortunately it's not that simple, inorganic systems can have as much visual complexity as organic things. For example.. um.. (looks out of window here in Toronto).. a snowflake!
Fractal complexity, such as that seen in the branches of a tree, is frequently mirrored in the inorganic world - the snowflake is one example, another less well known example are manganese dendrites, they look just like fossil plants, but are totally inorganic such as these [Victoria Museum].
The patterns of frost on a frozen windscreen are another example.
I can't see how a computer program can distinguish whether such complex patterns are signs of life or not.
Still, if it helps NASA get more funding, then who am I to argue!
Jolyon
This whole thing is slightly dodgy, and I begin to wonder whether it was released a day early by mistake.
The big problem is the use of JPEG source images. Unless you've stuck it up to the maximum size on quality, then the jpeg artifacting (which is in effect repeating blocks of image data after transitions) will probably mask any hidden level of complexity in the images - the human brain is a much better tool at pattern recognition than most computer algorithms (especially those algorithms not designed for the task!).
Throw high-resolution bitmap files at it, and I'd be more persuaded that there is a genuine effect. Until then, I suspect it's more of a happy coincidence that the files they've thrown at it give results they are excited about.
Some of the companies who had.uk.co domains were perfectly honest businesses who were SOLD them by slimeballs.
One of my clients has (had?) a.uk.co domain, they are a small husband & wife company who do specialist consultancy for companies wanting to do business into China. Their domain was eba.uk.co which they were sold (long before they came to me) because their three-letter-name wasn't available anywhere else. They most certainly aren't trying to pass-off as anyone else, the other eba. domain owners are in totally different industry sectors.
They've now got serious problems - noone can email them, noone can view their website. The worst thing they have done is taken some bad advice in the past.
I'm having to set them up a new domain name (a longer name with.co.uk at the end) which in itself is not a problem, but they'll have to redo all their stationery, business cards, etc. and the disruption to their business is going to be severe.
Surely the transport mechanism doesn't matter. If you're providing a method for person A to talk to person B why should any one service be deregulated when others are regulated?
I think that individuals using this over their broadband links is one thing, but for-profit companies wishing to invest into this industry don't have a strong case for avoiding regulation of some kind.
Transparent aluminium oxide has been known for a very long time, naturally it's known as Corundum, and red varieties are called Ruby and other colours (not just blue) are called Sapphires.
And artificial transparent rubies and sapphires have been made for around 100 years - so apart from maybe a new fabrication process there isn't really anything new in this story!
Jolyon
ps. Alum isn't used as an ore of aluminium - there isn't enough of it found naturally, the ore of aluminium is Bauxite, a mixture of aluminium oxides and hydroxides.
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Now, of course, if I lost my wife down the back of the sofa then I'd be able to go out and get a new Ogg-playing device without being shouted at!
I will make sure the next player I buy supports Ogg - but until it breaks or I lose it down the back of the sofa, I'm stuck with my old player which works quite nicely, albeit only with MP3s.
I agree that Ogg is a better format, better quality sound for similar bitrates to MP3, but until the portable devices I use, in-car CD/MP3 players, etc. accept the Ogg format as readily as they do MP3, then I (like most people) are stuck with the MP3 format. At least nowdays storage is cheap, so I whack everything to MP3 at a high bitrate.
I can imagine the source video material quality may be quite critical to this. It would be much easier to process a signal from a DVD, for example, than a composite video camera.
:)
But then on a DVD you'd just hit the subtitle button and problem sorted
Great! After they've sorted out the SPAM problem maybe they can find out who the hell keeps filling my mailbox full of unwanted Internet CDs.
. . Oh.
Well, as I keep telling my stamp-collecting dad, phillately will get you nowhere. Jolyon
Go onto eBay and sell them cheaper. And of course you can rightly claim how it's from the official source and how others are posting them unofficially. Make enough money to cover your costs and eventually he'll get the point and give up. A lot of hard effort, but I would imagine a lot less effort then you get yourself wound up in by unleashing the Dogs of Law.
It's quite interesting to see how much carbon is being soaked up by the oceans. Much of this carbon eventually ends up as deposits on the sea floor and, after millions of years, limestone. It may be a lower amount of carbon intake than the forests, but then forest fires and biological action on dead trees can eventually release a percentage of the carbon that's trapped by trees.
Just in the same way that you can take a piece of paper and paint a masterpiece onto it, or you can print a pizza leaflet onto it. The existence of pizza leaflets doesn't mean that paper can never be used for art. Jolyon
Ah yes, but in Microsoft Manhole Cover Service Pack 3 they have solved the 'falling down hole' problem by filling up the hole with dirt before putting cover back on.
I have a 1Gb SCSI drive sitting on a desk in the office here, it's 5.25" form factor, full height, pulled out of an old server.
Seeing the photo of this new drive has made me think it's probably time to throw it away! (Unless anyone near Croydon, UK, wants to come and take it! - unlikely!)
Jolyon
Go to google.com and do a search for
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The best search engine
now go to google and do a search for
The worst search engine.
Fun
Jolyon
Great news - because we all know how expensive speakers are and how cheap LCD screens are! Imagine the cost savings... Jolyon
Unfortunately it's not that simple, inorganic systems can have as much visual complexity as organic things. For example.. um.. (looks out of window here in Toronto).. a snowflake! Fractal complexity, such as that seen in the branches of a tree, is frequently mirrored in the inorganic world - the snowflake is one example, another less well known example are manganese dendrites, they look just like fossil plants, but are totally inorganic such as these [Victoria Museum]. The patterns of frost on a frozen windscreen are another example. I can't see how a computer program can distinguish whether such complex patterns are signs of life or not. Still, if it helps NASA get more funding, then who am I to argue! Jolyon
This whole thing is slightly dodgy, and I begin to wonder whether it was released a day early by mistake.
The big problem is the use of JPEG source images. Unless you've stuck it up to the maximum size on quality, then the jpeg artifacting (which is in effect repeating blocks of image data after transitions) will probably mask any hidden level of complexity in the images - the human brain is a much better tool at pattern recognition than most computer algorithms (especially those algorithms not designed for the task!).
Throw high-resolution bitmap files at it, and I'd be more persuaded that there is a genuine effect. Until then, I suspect it's more of a happy coincidence that the files they've thrown at it give results they are excited about.
Jolyon
I think that's the point! Duh.
How about we hire Anthony Daniels for a day or two? Give him a share of the prize money. Sorted.
.. the future sees you!
Not true!
.uk.co domains were perfectly honest businesses who were SOLD them by slimeballs.
.uk.co domain, they are a small husband & wife company who do specialist consultancy for companies wanting to do business into China. Their domain was eba.uk.co which they were sold (long before they came to me) because their three-letter-name wasn't available anywhere else. They most certainly aren't trying to pass-off as anyone else, the other eba. domain owners are in totally different industry sectors.
.co.uk at the end) which in itself is not a problem, but they'll have to redo all their stationery, business cards, etc. and the disruption to their business is going to be severe.
Some of the companies who had
One of my clients has (had?) a
They've now got serious problems - noone can email them, noone can view their website. The worst thing they have done is taken some bad advice in the past.
I'm having to set them up a new domain name (a longer name with
Jolyon
Surely the transport mechanism doesn't matter. If you're providing a method for person A to talk to person B why should any one service be deregulated when others are regulated? I think that individuals using this over their broadband links is one thing, but for-profit companies wishing to invest into this industry don't have a strong case for avoiding regulation of some kind.
They screwed up somewhere, got another random cat and hoped no-one would notice.
Transparent aluminium oxide has been known for a very long time, naturally it's known as Corundum, and red varieties are called Ruby and other colours (not just blue) are called Sapphires.
And artificial transparent rubies and sapphires have been made for around 100 years - so apart from maybe a new fabrication process there isn't really anything new in this story!
Jolyon
ps. Alum isn't used as an ore of aluminium - there isn't enough of it found naturally, the ore of aluminium is Bauxite, a mixture of aluminium oxides and hydroxides.