You could argue that whole "realised vs actualised infinity" thing, but you're completely missing the point. The statement "0.999... = 1" is actually the statement "The sequence (\frac{10^n-1}{10^n}) converges to 1". And that is easily seen to be true as it's just another way of writing the geometric series \sum_{n=1}^\infty 9\cdot 10^{-n} which has sum 1.
Decimal fractions are just a representation we humans use. The fundamental property of the real numbers is that it's the complete ordered field. The rest is just how we put those numbers on paper.
I guess this is what you can expect when companies are so big that they have a full blown legal department with lawyers on salary. They need to justify their employment and the obvious outcome is litigious behaviour.
Is this company by any chance multinational? And is the IT department technically/legally a separate entity in another country? Internal price gouging to shift profits to $tax_haven has been done before...
Except you're wrong. Freedom of speech and expresison is not widely recognized. Case in point: Drawings of Mohammed. The king in Thailand is "inviolable". Nazi iconography in Germany. I could go on.
But that's the point. We don't all agree. There are many people who believe in an invisible magical man in the sky who think they have a right not to be offended.
If you know how the name Nguyen is supposed to be pronounced, you'll be completely blind to the second half of this attempted joke ("attempted joke"---almost sounds like a crime, doesn't it?)
If I could vote you up, I would. Any proposal even remotely technology-related co-sponsored by Orrin "Big Media's Puppet" Hatch cannot possibly be good. Sure the "Kill switch" proposal is terrible too, but whatever Orrin Hatch is thinking of is guaranteed to be worse.
Same here---sort of. Old desktop 2.4GHz P4 and scrolling causes 100% CPU usage in Firefox 3.6 which is supposed to have a decent Javascript implementation, but apparently not. I would test with Chrome, but the installer always fails on this machine with a completely useless error message. Don't know why.
Can we stop with this idiocy? "Effectively controlling" is not the same as "being effective". The Content Scramling System used to encrypt data on DVDs is effectively controlling region coding (et al), but it is not very effective at it. But during normal operation of a (properly licensed blah blah blah) DVD player, it will indeed "effectively control" your access to the data on a disk.
Regulation almost never fixes problems like this. And it will not do so here, becuase the entrenched players will lobby for provisions that---though expensive for themselves (they'll just pass the buck on to you anyway)---make it nigh impossible for a small company to get started.
Again it all comes back to lobbying and campaign financing. And noone in Washington has any incentive to fix it. Congress? Heck no, they got cushy lobbying jobs to look forward to when they retire.
In case your memory doesn't go that far back, Parent is spot on about 5-year-olds dreaming up patentable things. I'm of course talking about the patent for "method of swinging on a swing".
This seems pretty true. In theory x264 can encode content with very low latency[1], and delivering MPEG-4 from previously encoded files is pretty easy, but my search-fu can't find any ready made solution for streaming using RTSP that doesn't involve paying through the nose for the software---although hacking something together with x264 seems very doable.
I don't know about how easy it is with Theora, but it doesn't really matter since it has had no impact on the mobile device market whatsoever.
Denmark voted "Yes with comments" on the ISO OOXML ballot. Of course that turned out to do a hell of a lot of good since at later meetings a lot of ISO's changes to the ECMA spec were tossed away, so essentially we just voted "Yes".
A lot of the members of Dansk Standard wanted to vote "No", but it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Denmark would say yes given that business in this country is nearly 100% MS-based. (Actually... Denmark might be the country in the West with the highest percentage of Windows installs).
And on a personal note, I don't take ISO seriously any more, and neither should you.
Not any time soon. Embedded Theora video in Firefox 3.5 still uses at least twice as much CPU as downloading the file and playing it with a proper video player. It's better than Flash which is even more greedy with your CPU cycles, but it is by no means anywhere near close to being called good.
Actually UStream's chat is just regular old IRC. Seriously./server c.ustream.tv and then/nick [username]:[password] and you're in business. Of course it's only UStream... livestream, justin.tv and pretty much everyone else are still using crappy proprietary chat interfaces as far as I can tell.
Of course Youtube moving away from Flash won't kill that abomination on the web anyway. Live video is becoming a lot more popular and Flash is by far the easiest way to make it happen right now. It's also pretty cheap---at least until MPEG-LA cranks up the price for streaming H.264 content in 2011.
Don't they understand that in China, the Chinese are virtually never guilty of copyright violations and foreign entities are almost automatically guilty upon accusation?
What the... must all SpamAssassin rule be regexes? Because I can't see any (non brain dead) reason why not to implement this by just checking if $current_year < $header_year if that's not the case.
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Decimal fractions are just a representation we humans use. The fundamental property of the real numbers is that it's the complete ordered field. The rest is just how we put those numbers on paper.
Well... to be fair the guide had faked his degree in earthonomics.
Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
I guess this is what you can expect when companies are so big that they have a full blown legal department with lawyers on salary. They need to justify their employment and the obvious outcome is litigious behaviour.
Is this company by any chance multinational? And is the IT department technically/legally a separate entity in another country? Internal price gouging to shift profits to $tax_haven has been done before...
Except you're wrong. Freedom of speech and expresison is not widely recognized. Case in point: Drawings of Mohammed. The king in Thailand is "inviolable". Nazi iconography in Germany. I could go on.
But that's the point. We don't all agree. There are many people who believe in an invisible magical man in the sky who think they have a right not to be offended.
If you know how the name Nguyen is supposed to be pronounced, you'll be completely blind to the second half of this attempted joke ("attempted joke"---almost sounds like a crime, doesn't it?)
wait for it... wait for it... And nothing of value was lost!
If I could vote you up, I would. Any proposal even remotely technology-related co-sponsored by Orrin "Big Media's Puppet" Hatch cannot possibly be good. Sure the "Kill switch" proposal is terrible too, but whatever Orrin Hatch is thinking of is guaranteed to be worse.
"It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state."
Same here---sort of. Old desktop 2.4GHz P4 and scrolling causes 100% CPU usage in Firefox 3.6 which is supposed to have a decent Javascript implementation, but apparently not. I would test with Chrome, but the installer always fails on this machine with a completely useless error message. Don't know why.
Can we stop with this idiocy? "Effectively controlling" is not the same as "being effective". The Content Scramling System used to encrypt data on DVDs is effectively controlling region coding (et al), but it is not very effective at it. But during normal operation of a (properly licensed blah blah blah) DVD player, it will indeed "effectively control" your access to the data on a disk.
Regulation almost never fixes problems like this. And it will not do so here, becuase the entrenched players will lobby for provisions that---though expensive for themselves (they'll just pass the buck on to you anyway)---make it nigh impossible for a small company to get started.
Again it all comes back to lobbying and campaign financing. And noone in Washington has any incentive to fix it. Congress? Heck no, they got cushy lobbying jobs to look forward to when they retire.
That's because of compulsory licensing. Artists have zero control over how radio stations decide to play their music.
In case your memory doesn't go that far back, Parent is spot on about 5-year-olds dreaming up patentable things. I'm of course talking about the patent for "method of swinging on a swing".
The day I sent you 6 million spam mails was the most important day in your life. But for me... it was Tuesday.
This seems pretty true. In theory x264 can encode content with very low latency[1], and delivering MPEG-4 from previously encoded files is pretty easy, but my search-fu can't find any ready made solution for streaming using RTSP that doesn't involve paying through the nose for the software---although hacking something together with x264 seems very doable.
I don't know about how easy it is with Theora, but it doesn't really matter since it has had no impact on the mobile device market whatsoever.
[1]: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=249
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What do you say? That doesn't make any sense? Look! Shiny! New stuff for you to buy, Mr. Consumer!
Denmark voted "Yes with comments" on the ISO OOXML ballot. Of course that turned out to do a hell of a lot of good since at later meetings a lot of ISO's changes to the ECMA spec were tossed away, so essentially we just voted "Yes".
A lot of the members of Dansk Standard wanted to vote "No", but it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Denmark would say yes given that business in this country is nearly 100% MS-based. (Actually... Denmark might be the country in the West with the highest percentage of Windows installs).
And on a personal note, I don't take ISO seriously any more, and neither should you.
Not any time soon. Embedded Theora video in Firefox 3.5 still uses at least twice as much CPU as downloading the file and playing it with a proper video player. It's better than Flash which is even more greedy with your CPU cycles, but it is by no means anywhere near close to being called good.
Actually UStream's chat is just regular old IRC. Seriously. /server c.ustream.tv and then /nick [username]:[password] and you're in business. Of course it's only UStream... livestream, justin.tv and pretty much everyone else are still using crappy proprietary chat interfaces as far as I can tell.
Of course Youtube moving away from Flash won't kill that abomination on the web anyway. Live video is becoming a lot more popular and Flash is by far the easiest way to make it happen right now. It's also pretty cheap---at least until MPEG-LA cranks up the price for streaming H.264 content in 2011.
In British English, 'have' is indeed correct. US English is a bit different in this regard IIRC.
"Arsenal have defeated ..." vs. "Arsenal has defeated ..."
At least that's how I remember it from over a decade ago.
Don't they understand that in China, the Chinese are virtually never guilty of copyright violations and foreign entities are almost automatically guilty upon accusation?
What the... must all SpamAssassin rule be regexes? Because I can't see any (non brain dead) reason why not to implement this by just checking if $current_year < $header_year if that's not the case.