East asian languages in general don't have L and R sounds as we know it. They just don't differentiate between them: they are close enough sounds that either pronounciation is more or less acceptable. To me, the sound they make is more like an un-emphasized L, but that is about the same as an un-emphasized R. For example: in the Japanese Spirited Away, the subtitles (original translation) call the one woman "Lin" while the closed captioning calls her "Rin".
My girlfriend's name is Laura and her Thai mother calls her Laula. I've never known a native Japanese speaker, and I've only seen a few Japanese movies, but I think that east asian languages in general are like this.
In my opinion, that is the problem. It is based on WYSIWYG, which is useful because it is exact and you can do precise drawing, as in the GIMP or anything that requires exact graphics. However, most programs should be standardized and would benefit from using something that is more WYSIWYM, in other words, the app says "I want a toolbar here" and a toolbar is put there, with no middleman drawing the toolbar differently from everyone else. That is also why cut & paste was rather painful because everyone did it differently.
The reason why CLI is so powerful is because everything can be piped here and there and it is standardized to allow that. The interface is pretty standard too, with variations here and there but in the end, most stuff can be piped into other programs because it is all bytes. However, the *nix GUIs are all so different that such interop and consistancy is not as attainable.
I second that. I own the book and it is really interesting. A book written by a guy that built his own kilowatt particle accelerator from spare wire and junk when he was a teen [?] has got to be pretty good. I'll have to read it again since I haven't read it in years. IIRC, he even was on a Discovery Channel show about physics.
But then again, I have to finish "Alice in Quantumland", and find my "The God Particle" by Leon Lederman to read again, which is a hillarious and extremely informative book. It is almost a review of Physics from day one -- the Greeks -- to now, in a huge amount of detail. Imagine a 26 page narrative between Leon Lederman and the ancient Greek philosofer Democritus in the Fermilab collider detector late at night, starting with the title Late Night with Lederman! I love the book.
Actually, the program has very little to do with downloading from iTunes or encryption, since it does neither. But I wanted to say something anyway. Would it be possible to get VMWare to run Windows under Linux to play an encrypted audio file through a virtual soundcard that is hacked so the straight PCM is saved to disc?
Yes, but you can't really call it just the GNU OS because it is using Linus's kernel. It does imply that RMS is accepting of Linux into the GNU OS and/or distributes it himself like that, but indeed, the press actually got it close enought this time. Many Slashdotters wouldn't even get this close to reality.
We have almost transcended physical formats today. We have MP3, Ogg, FLAC, AAC, and WMV files all ripped from CD's or bought online that can be placed on nearly any digital audio medium, such as flash, HD, or CD players. Even if they come up with a new format, enough people can rip stuff that they won't bother to change format. If that new player comes out, eventually there will be a burner or writer for that format and we won't have to worry about buying the stuff we have again.
Is there a notice, something like a shrink-wrap license, saying that if you open the package you promise not to do anything like that? I'm curious on how this system works. For example, what are the terms?
They are making available for distibution by putting it in their shared folder. They couldn't go into a courtroom and say "This guy distributed to 10 people when you have no proof." but you could say "he is making this available for distribution without our permission.".
If you put an ad in the paper to distribute free $DISTRIBUTION Linux CD's, you are allowing people to come to you and ask you for a copy. I see this as the same thing, except with material whose copyright doesn't allow you to distribute it.
That's a neat trick: getting mod points, OT posting as an anonymous coward, then modding your post up. At least that is what seems logical to me. Who else would mod this insightful? Please, before I puke,
It doesn't really matter how you display something, whether graphically or textually, but how you represent something. CLI works because it represents everything as a file upon which commands act upon. This is why I think that file managers suck. They throw out most of what is good about CLI, many commands and options to commands, and keeps the files. GUI isn't bad when done correctly or at least consistantly, like NextStep (caps?) or MacOS but when you have redundancy and things that you have to change interfaces for, something is wrong. Of course, you have to fight the people who want to put their own spin on things and create a new button widget that does half the cool thing the old one did so that it can do two new cools things. That's why X sucks: it is inconsistant because everyone has their own idea about how to implement things and no group has enough software to really make the GUI complete. I wouldn't mind a complete GNUStep desktop, but that doesn't really exist.
What might be nice is to use Java and expose the messages to the user through a GUI. Maybe like Smalltalk was going for, I think.
I am still waiting for a direct computer to brain interface to let me send messages to objects and lets me extend my brain with the computer.
I agree with you. I even gave my original FotR DVD to my girlfriend because it is just painful to me to see how they screwed up the story. I loved the begining, but it just went downhill from there. Maybe I'll have to check into the FotR Extended Edition to see how much better it is.
Yes, but there are quite a few problems. The craft would have to be big enough to store a decent number of people for a long time. Unless we just have intelligent robots, which would be much more efficient, but we're not there yet. Once you've attained Warp 0.10 (assuming warp 1 is light speed), you have to stop eventually. But even worse, the sun's magnetosphere is not able to protect you in deep space. You'd have to develop something really good at blocking radiation.
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East asian languages in general don't have L and R sounds as we know it. They just don't differentiate between them: they are close enough sounds that either pronounciation is more or less acceptable. To me, the sound they make is more like an un-emphasized L, but that is about the same as an un-emphasized R. For example: in the Japanese Spirited Away, the subtitles (original translation) call the one woman "Lin" while the closed captioning calls her "Rin".
My girlfriend's name is Laura and her Thai mother calls her Laula. I've never known a native Japanese speaker, and I've only seen a few Japanese movies, but I think that east asian languages in general are like this.
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In my opinion, that is the problem. It is based on WYSIWYG, which is useful because it is exact and you can do precise drawing, as in the GIMP or anything that requires exact graphics. However, most programs should be standardized and would benefit from using something that is more WYSIWYM, in other words, the app says "I want a toolbar here" and a toolbar is put there, with no middleman drawing the toolbar differently from everyone else. That is also why cut & paste was rather painful because everyone did it differently.
The reason why CLI is so powerful is because everything can be piped here and there and it is standardized to allow that. The interface is pretty standard too, with variations here and there but in the end, most stuff can be piped into other programs because it is all bytes. However, the *nix GUIs are all so different that such interop and consistancy is not as attainable.
And some Simpsons jokes are pretty awful. As always, one man's +5 Funny is another man's -1 Flamebait.
I second that. I own the book and it is really interesting. A book written by a guy that built his own kilowatt particle accelerator from spare wire and junk when he was a teen [?] has got to be pretty good. I'll have to read it again since I haven't read it in years. IIRC, he even was on a Discovery Channel show about physics.
But then again, I have to finish "Alice in Quantumland", and find my "The God Particle" by Leon Lederman to read again, which is a hillarious and extremely informative book. It is almost a review of Physics from day one -- the Greeks -- to now, in a huge amount of detail. Imagine a 26 page narrative between Leon Lederman and the ancient Greek philosofer Democritus in the Fermilab collider detector late at night, starting with the title Late Night with Lederman! I love the book.
Actually, the program has very little to do with downloading from iTunes or encryption, since it does neither. But I wanted to say something anyway. Would it be possible to get VMWare to run Windows under Linux to play an encrypted audio file through a virtual soundcard that is hacked so the straight PCM is saved to disc?
Even worse, it'd be "the FART Prevention Act"!
Yes, but you can't really call it just the GNU OS because it is using Linus's kernel. It does imply that RMS is accepting of Linux into the GNU OS and/or distributes it himself like that, but indeed, the press actually got it close enought this time. Many Slashdotters wouldn't even get this close to reality.
We have almost transcended physical formats today. We have MP3, Ogg, FLAC, AAC, and WMV files all ripped from CD's or bought online that can be placed on nearly any digital audio medium, such as flash, HD, or CD players. Even if they come up with a new format, enough people can rip stuff that they won't bother to change format. If that new player comes out, eventually there will be a burner or writer for that format and we won't have to worry about buying the stuff we have again.
To be exact,
2 bytes/sample * 44100 samples/second * 60 seconds/minute / 2^20 bytes/MB * 2 channels ~ 10.09 MB/minute
3 bytes/sample * 96000 samples/second * 60 seconds/minute / 2^20 bytes/MB * 2 channels ~ 32.96 MB/minute
This means 2.32 GB for 72 minutes.
I was bored and wanted to try out my RPN shell for my TI-89 </offtopic>
Is there a notice, something like a shrink-wrap license, saying that if you open the package you promise not to do anything like that? I'm curious on how this system works. For example, what are the terms?
They are making available for distibution by putting it in their shared folder. They couldn't go into a courtroom and say "This guy distributed to 10 people when you have no proof." but you could say "he is making this available for distribution without our permission.".
If you put an ad in the paper to distribute free $DISTRIBUTION Linux CD's, you are allowing people to come to you and ask you for a copy. I see this as the same thing, except with material whose copyright doesn't allow you to distribute it.
That's a neat trick: getting mod points, OT posting as an anonymous coward, then modding your post up. At least that is what seems logical to me. Who else would mod this insightful? Please, before I puke,
MOD THIS SHIT DOWN!!!Jeez, give them a few more days. They'll have a Linux Beowulf cluster of the cameras to serve webpages on.
You mean an Airzooka Air Gun? So that's SCO's tactic!
I would buy a "They [SCO] are smoking crack. --Linus Torvalds" shirt.
...that last five minutes until they die. Besides, we are talking about power/size, not power/cost, although, cost is important too.
Funny, I can ping the site but apparently Apache borked. Netcraft stats
It doesn't really matter how you display something, whether graphically or textually, but how you represent something. CLI works because it represents everything as a file upon which commands act upon. This is why I think that file managers suck. They throw out most of what is good about CLI, many commands and options to commands, and keeps the files. GUI isn't bad when done correctly or at least consistantly, like NextStep (caps?) or MacOS but when you have redundancy and things that you have to change interfaces for, something is wrong. Of course, you have to fight the people who want to put their own spin on things and create a new button widget that does half the cool thing the old one did so that it can do two new cools things. That's why X sucks: it is inconsistant because everyone has their own idea about how to implement things and no group has enough software to really make the GUI complete. I wouldn't mind a complete GNUStep desktop, but that doesn't really exist.
What might be nice is to use Java and expose the messages to the user through a GUI. Maybe like Smalltalk was going for, I think.
I am still waiting for a direct computer to brain interface to let me send messages to objects and lets me extend my brain with the computer.
Just go to your preferences and select to not view stories from the section labeled "Dupes".
I agree with you. I even gave my original FotR DVD to my girlfriend because it is just painful to me to see how they screwed up the story. I loved the begining, but it just went downhill from there. Maybe I'll have to check into the FotR Extended Edition to see how much better it is.
I've had two High School Chemistry teachers (Honors and AP) and neither could pronounce nuclear. One even came from industry.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030630.html for the linkagely handicapped. Awesome picure. Makes you think that God really doesn't care.
"Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest wiiiiiiiiith, A FARTING HERRING!"
Yes, but there are quite a few problems. The craft would have to be big enough to store a decent number of people for a long time. Unless we just have intelligent robots, which would be much more efficient, but we're not there yet. Once you've attained Warp 0.10 (assuming warp 1 is light speed), you have to stop eventually. But even worse, the sun's magnetosphere is not able to protect you in deep space. You'd have to develop something really good at blocking radiation.