Well, if they aren't in your head, they can't be used in the decision making process. The sum effect of your life just stored things in your head through a deterministic memory process, or did some of the brain cells decide they wanted to remember some things but not others? Genetics again is a deterministic process with the results stored inside your body. Interestingly, this discussion must have been determined to happen from the beginning of time through a series of complex deterministic processes. I hope life has something good in store for me, because apparently I have no hope of changing it...
I disagree that free will and determinism aren't at odds, because without free will your thinking and decisions are nothing more than deterministic chemical reactions in the brain. With free will, we can alter the chemical reactions to produce the decision we want, without free will we are slave to however the reactions happen.
Oh well, can't be right all of the time:) Anyhow, is Napster one of the services though that you lose the ability to play the song if you dont keep up your subscription? Because if so, that would be a bit different than a service where you pay a flat rate (which AllofMP3 apparently isn't) and get to keep as many songs as you can download indefinitely
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't allofmp3 charge a fixed fee for unlimited download? Also, aren't royalties usually based on a per song basis. So how can unlimited fixed fee possibly be compatible with a per song model? Im sure if the RIAA asked for money, they would get no where near what they feel they should get. Whether what they should get or not is not our decision, because they are the owners of the property.
I see no point of following the NFL, we have enough people that play in the amatuer leagues around here. They are not worse athletes, they just play a little rougher. The truth is though, that any of those local bands would jump at the opportunity to sign with a big name recording label, just as any person in the amateur football league would jump at the opportunity to join the NFL. Not to say that there are not good local bands (football players), because I enjoy live music as much as the next guy, but there is a reason some people are being paid big money.
So what if killer whales would have overfished the population? Would that have been OK, or would it have been our duty to intervene? How do you know the people fishing these animals weren't doing so out of necessity?
So does this discussion mean that an axion could travel right through a chunk of lead because it couldn't interact with the lead particles? If two axions collided, which of the four forces would be involved?
Are you referring to L'Hopital's Rule? I believe 0/0 can come out to any number. Consider sin(x)/x, in that case 0/0 (x = 0) is equal to 1. How about (x-2)/(x^3-8). When that is equal to 0/0 (x = 2), the value is 1/12. But L'Hopitals makes assumptions as to the continuity of a function (which I believe another responder was referring to) since it involves taking the limits of derivatives.
It seems like all the ones I get look like the one on Wikipedias Captcha page, with randomly colored lines sprinkled throughout. It seems to me (not even a novice on image recognition) that "confetti" like this would be easy to detect.
All local businesses are owned by rich people? Wow, news break for me. I know several local business owners and none of them are rich, unless we are playing the game that all Americans are rich. If that is the case, I'm sure there are local business owners in poorer countries that you would not consider rich.
Then you must not be including your home and car as assets. I seriously doubt the principal on your mortgage is more than the value of your home and I wouldn't think you could be too upside down on your car either. Cars depreciate rapidly, so I suppose you may owe slightly more on your car than it is worth, but I wouldn't think that would be very large. So if you have any money in the bank or equity in your house, chances are you do have some net worth.
Why is this comment moderated troll? It brings up the issue of people constantly using b and B interchangeably, which has gotten us to the point of rarely knowing whether a person is really referring to (b)its or (B)ytes (which is 8 bits).
I believe is probably referring to the yearly budget deficit. The amount we add to the deficit each year is decreasing, though the overall deficit is still increasing of course.
Though a little harsh on the other posters, the parent is correct. Also, just to finish the process discussed in parent, the real compression comes when the psychoacoustic model tells the quantizer where to distribute available bits, with the number of available bits being driven by the desired bit rate. Basically you look at the signal to mask ratio in each subband, and distribute the most bits to the subbands that have the highest SMR.
wposdsua (why do people on slashdot define singly used acronyms)? There is no point in using an acronym if the only time it is used is when it is defined. Jar (Just a rant).
Well, a poster up above stated that they are infact using lossless JPEG2000. I believe 720p on my digital cable box produces about 80 Mb/s of compressed data and a channel occupies about 6 MHz of bandwidth. The GP says that the UWB system will provide 250 MHz of bandwidth, which is much greater than the 6 MHz currently being utilized in compressed form. If a 6 MHz channel can carry 80 Mb/s, a 250 MHz channel could carry 3.333 Gb/s and an uncompressed 1080p program only contains 1920x1080 (Pixels/Frame) x 30 (Frame/Second) x 24 (Bits/Pixel) = 1.492 Gb/s. So it seems as though it would be possible to use lossless compression as an earlier poster stated.
Why is your comment insightful when it misses the whole point. The point is not to teach kids all about computers, the point is to teach kids about how to use computers in the profession they ultimately choose. This is repeated on slashdot over and over, but to drive a car you don't have to know how to change a timing belt, change the brake pads, or even change the oil. So why to use a computer should you have to know how to install install new video card, install a new operating system, or even install more memory?
The rules of science don't allow one to prove, only to disprove. So you can offer an alternative hypothesis and have people try to disprove it or you can disprove the hypothesis that you are refuting.
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Well, if they aren't in your head, they can't be used in the decision making process. The sum effect of your life just stored things in your head through a deterministic memory process, or did some of the brain cells decide they wanted to remember some things but not others? Genetics again is a deterministic process with the results stored inside your body. Interestingly, this discussion must have been determined to happen from the beginning of time through a series of complex deterministic processes. I hope life has something good in store for me, because apparently I have no hope of changing it...
I disagree that free will and determinism aren't at odds, because without free will your thinking and decisions are nothing more than deterministic chemical reactions in the brain. With free will, we can alter the chemical reactions to produce the decision we want, without free will we are slave to however the reactions happen.
Do you believe in destiny?
Oh well, can't be right all of the time :) Anyhow, is Napster one of the services though that you lose the ability to play the song if you dont keep up your subscription? Because if so, that would be a bit different than a service where you pay a flat rate (which AllofMP3 apparently isn't) and get to keep as many songs as you can download indefinitely
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't allofmp3 charge a fixed fee for unlimited download? Also, aren't royalties usually based on a per song basis. So how can unlimited fixed fee possibly be compatible with a per song model? Im sure if the RIAA asked for money, they would get no where near what they feel they should get. Whether what they should get or not is not our decision, because they are the owners of the property.
Your argument could be rewritten as follows...
I see no point of following the NFL, we have enough people that play in the amatuer leagues around here. They are not worse athletes, they just play a little rougher. The truth is though, that any of those local bands would jump at the opportunity to sign with a big name recording label, just as any person in the amateur football league would jump at the opportunity to join the NFL. Not to say that there are not good local bands (football players), because I enjoy live music as much as the next guy, but there is a reason some people are being paid big money.
So what if killer whales would have overfished the population? Would that have been OK, or would it have been our duty to intervene? How do you know the people fishing these animals weren't doing so out of necessity?
So we humans aren't part of nature? That is the only way I can see our impact on things being artificial.
So does this discussion mean that an axion could travel right through a chunk of lead because it couldn't interact with the lead particles? If two axions collided, which of the four forces would be involved?
Are you referring to L'Hopital's Rule? I believe 0/0 can come out to any number. Consider sin(x)/x, in that case 0/0 (x = 0) is equal to 1. How about (x-2)/(x^3-8). When that is equal to 0/0 (x = 2), the value is 1/12. But L'Hopitals makes assumptions as to the continuity of a function (which I believe another responder was referring to) since it involves taking the limits of derivatives.
It seems like all the ones I get look like the one on Wikipedias Captcha page, with randomly colored lines sprinkled throughout. It seems to me (not even a novice on image recognition) that "confetti" like this would be easy to detect.
All local businesses are owned by rich people? Wow, news break for me. I know several local business owners and none of them are rich, unless we are playing the game that all Americans are rich. If that is the case, I'm sure there are local business owners in poorer countries that you would not consider rich.
Then you must not be including your home and car as assets. I seriously doubt the principal on your mortgage is more than the value of your home and I wouldn't think you could be too upside down on your car either. Cars depreciate rapidly, so I suppose you may owe slightly more on your car than it is worth, but I wouldn't think that would be very large. So if you have any money in the bank or equity in your house, chances are you do have some net worth.
Why is this comment moderated troll? It brings up the issue of people constantly using b and B interchangeably, which has gotten us to the point of rarely knowing whether a person is really referring to (b)its or (B)ytes (which is 8 bits).
I believe it stands for Instruction Set Architecture, with x86 being an example of an ISA, not the old bus of which you are thinking.
I believe is probably referring to the yearly budget deficit. The amount we add to the deficit each year is decreasing, though the overall deficit is still increasing of course.
Though a little harsh on the other posters, the parent is correct. Also, just to finish the process discussed in parent, the real compression comes when the psychoacoustic model tells the quantizer where to distribute available bits, with the number of available bits being driven by the desired bit rate. Basically you look at the signal to mask ratio in each subband, and distribute the most bits to the subbands that have the highest SMR.
And that is? I would have assumed they sold them as regular cats.
wposdsua (why do people on slashdot define singly used acronyms)? There is no point in using an acronym if the only time it is used is when it is defined. Jar (Just a rant).
Well, a poster up above stated that they are infact using lossless JPEG2000. I believe 720p on my digital cable box produces about 80 Mb/s of compressed data and a channel occupies about 6 MHz of bandwidth. The GP says that the UWB system will provide 250 MHz of bandwidth, which is much greater than the 6 MHz currently being utilized in compressed form. If a 6 MHz channel can carry 80 Mb/s, a 250 MHz channel could carry 3.333 Gb/s and an uncompressed 1080p program only contains 1920x1080 (Pixels/Frame) x 30 (Frame/Second) x 24 (Bits/Pixel) = 1.492 Gb/s. So it seems as though it would be possible to use lossless compression as an earlier poster stated.
Why is your comment insightful when it misses the whole point. The point is not to teach kids all about computers, the point is to teach kids about how to use computers in the profession they ultimately choose. This is repeated on slashdot over and over, but to drive a car you don't have to know how to change a timing belt, change the brake pads, or even change the oil. So why to use a computer should you have to know how to install install new video card, install a new operating system, or even install more memory?
And where did the matter from the pevious universe come from? If it came from a previous universe, where did the "first" matter come from?
So how did all the matter, compressed into the size of an electron before the Big Bang, get created.
The rules of science don't allow one to prove, only to disprove. So you can offer an alternative hypothesis and have people try to disprove it or you can disprove the hypothesis that you are refuting.
I'll let you store your gold on the land that I recently purchased (http://LunarRegistry.com). For a small fee of course.