It does not matter how the coffee was prepared. What matters is that the temperture of the coffee when served was obviously below boiling point. Ordinary consumer water kettles let the user dispense boiling water (as in 100C and 212F) there are water kettles for use in cars--would you find it reasonable if people sued the manufacturers of those after pouring boiling water onto themselves?
We hate Microsoft because many of use are the ones who have to fix it when somone breaks Windows or when Windows breaks on itself. We are the ones who have to explain why users can't receive their mail and receive an obscure error message when their.pst file grows to 1.82GB. We are the ones who have to scratch our heads when Excel dumps 2MB of repeating junk in an.xls file and the user reports an unresponsive worksheet or when the autofilter fails to include entries available in the column without sorting for RNG knows what reason.
So, to have perfectly unbreakable encryption over a 120 km link for just $100,000? I think that would get the attention of quite a number of large and middle-sized organizations, banks, and perhaps data warehouses.
Unless you plan to transport huge amounts of data you can have perfectly unbreakable encryption far, far cheaper--a number of harddrives full of randomness shipped once in a while between the locations. Another plus is that guarding a car for 120km once in a while is far easier then replacing 120km of fibre every time someone breaks the cable.
Then, for the 10GB iPod I received as a hand-me-down, I use MP3. Would rather use Ogg, but I can't. These are generated in batch mode from the FLAC, so it's easy.
In case your OS supports FUSE you might want to look into mp3fs.
You missunderstand what "lossless" means in the given context. It's not about recording quality, it's about data compression. Downsampling would be lossy, FLAC encoding on the other hand isn't.
On the other hand, I have to think that if someone makes a recording that can continue to sell for 50+ years, that person deserves some sort of financial reward for it.
If it can seriously cripple the hardware there is a chance it might bite you. And if it's easy fixed the thief will do it. Use encryption if you are woried about the data.
FTA: "IBM is the world's leading patent holder, spending $6 billion a year in research and development and earning about $1 billion a year in royalties."
If that's not promoting the arts and science, I don't know what is.
5 billion loses certainly are not promoting arts or science. If I may take a wild guess it's probably the profits from selling new products their research produces that makes them spend so much on research and development.
I'm not the AC, but I would very much like you to explain why patents can not be extended in the same way copyright was, the AC may have been a bit harsh, but the claim was compleatly unsuported.
The system encourages people to take their ideas and reduce them to practice. Having the invention filed with the government exposes the knowledge to the public, who benefit where the alternative is keeping the details a secret.
How many people go digging through the huge pile of crap that a patent database represents when they need to make something, say an online shop?
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It does not matter how the coffee was prepared. What matters is that the temperture of the coffee when served was obviously below boiling point. Ordinary consumer water kettles let the user dispense boiling water (as in 100C and 212F) there are water kettles for use in cars--would you find it reasonable if people sued the manufacturers of those after pouring boiling water onto themselves?
We hate Microsoft because many of use are the ones who have to fix it when somone breaks Windows or when Windows breaks on itself. We are the ones who have to explain why users can't receive their mail and receive an obscure error message when their .pst file grows to 1.82GB. We are the ones who have to scratch our heads when Excel dumps 2MB of repeating junk in an .xls file and the user reports an unresponsive worksheet or when the autofilter fails to include entries available in the column without sorting for RNG knows what reason.
No I don't, the article is about audio data compression, not audio digitalization or audio compression.
You missunderstand what "lossless" means in the given context. It's not about recording quality, it's about data compression. Downsampling would be lossy, FLAC encoding on the other hand isn't.
In fact headphones give incredible 3D sound with the right recording.
If the music is recorded, it is by it's very nature lossy.
You trust Microsoft's minimum requirements? Ever run Windows 95 on a 386?
Don't you mean iditors?
Don't know about you, but I want my data to be recoverable in the event of hardware failure.
The sun isn't a power source anymore?
"Trusted" computing doesn't solve this problem.
If it can seriously cripple the hardware there is a chance it might bite you. And if it's easy fixed the thief will do it. Use encryption if you are woried about the data.
x.org is an X11, you are thinking x.org vs XFree86. And as far as I'm concerned it showed strenghts of FOSS not weakneses.
I'm not the AC, but I would very much like you to explain why patents can not be extended in the same way copyright was, the AC may have been a bit harsh, but the claim was compleatly unsuported.
Depends on you definition of "life". Viruses, for example, are comonly not considered to be life forms yet they evolve...