My machine can handle Java but I still hate Java software. It's such a clunky way of doing things. Why should an application act like a document (ie. open within another program)?
Last time I tried to use a Java BT client it failed due to some security related bullshit that prevented my version of the VM accessing the Internet. Yeah sure, I'll download a newer version that is ten times the size of the program I actually want. Fuck that, BitComet has a native Win32 executable - I'll use that instead.
I think most people are in the same boat as you. However I predict many people, rather than go back to dial-up, would simply switch to a cheaper (200MB cap) broadband plan to keep the snappy response and convenience of always-on.
For some reason (please someone explain why), the 1B = 10dB rule seems to apply only when measuring actual sound (as apposed to an electrical signal representing the sound). In most cases 1B = 20dB!
This would explain why the dynamic range of 16 bit audio is 96.33dB (20 * log(2^16)) instead of 48.165dB (10 * log(2^16)) as logic would suggest.
Over in PAL land you can use MPEG Layer 2 for the audio. You can use it for NTSC discs too but it breaks the standard. It should play on any PAL or SVCD capable player though. Its not as good as AC3, but it still offers significant space savings.
Besides, if it's legal to download, then why shouldn't it be legal to upload? I mean, come on! The ONLY WAY you *can* download is if somebody sends you the file! Either prosecute both or neither!
If anything it's the downloader who makes the copy. The three step to copying anything are reading the original, transfering it, and writing the copy. Step three happens at the downloader's end. (I'll admit FTP and email create a bit of a grey area with this logic)
Another way of looking at it is the computer you download from gives you the file because you told it to. If you initiate the transfer you are responsible for it and you are responsible for what happens to it when it arrives at your end.
If we assume silence is the complete absense of any sound then I believe the answer is my username!
1 times the quietest human audible sound is log1* Bells** (0)
2 times the quietest human audible sound is log2 Bells (0.301)
10 times the quietest human audible sound is log10 Bells (1)
0 times the quietest human audible sound is log0 (that's me) Bells (Woah my calculator don't like that - I think it's minus infinity)
...all color copiers come with a currency copying detection system. They detect the paper notes of most major currencies, and if anyone attempts to copy them, a flag is set in the machine such that the next time it gets serviced it actually informs the technician, who then informs the police. I believe some machines even cease operation until a technician is called...
Thanks for the info. I'll use that next time I get fired.
1. Slip money under cover of photocopier
2. Set number of copies to 100
3. Press COPY
4. Quietly walk away (unless an alarm goes off - in which case run!)
Very clever idea and I'd imagine it would be very easy to do (you could probably do it now with firewalls). All we need is a new version of an existing popular app that detects the country it is in and refuses all connections within that country*. It would appear like a regular node in the existing network.
The main problems would be increased international bandwidth use (which could increase ISP costs), slightly higher ping times (who cares) and more unavailable files appearing in the search results.
The drawbacks are minor (although it'd piss the ISPs off - hopefully it'll turn them against the **AA) and it would definitely perform better than Freenet.
I wouldn't be supprised though if the **AA started paying overseas companies to do the searching for them (whoops there's another IT job outsourced to India).
*Yes I mean all connections both up and down as downloading can be detected and is still illegal in many countries.
Yeah! And why is it that the regions 2-6 discs only work in the region they were released in even though they've already been released in other regions? I mean if a DVD is released in Europe a couple of months after the US, shouldn't the European version be playable in US players also?
Sometimes I think they set the region purely out of habit. I live in Australia (region 4) and had to import the Lion King from the UK and get this - the disc is set to play in both regions 2 and 4. It hasn't even been released in region 4 (and won't be 'til March 2004). But it won't play in region 1 even though it was released there on the same day as it was in the UK.
That's progress. The largest library in the world can only store 0.0244% as much information as something built thousands of years ago to store one man's corpse.
DVD+ apparently supports VBR (Variable Bit Rate) encoding when recording as video (obviously, computer media files with VBR in them will save just fine when using this as a data medium). DVD- apparently does not. This may be outdated information.
That seams strange. Are you referring to the set top DVD recorders (that encode and burn at the same time)? I've only ever burnt DVD-R[W] and only ever encoded in VBR. I've used two different authoring apps and neither of them gave any compliance warnings. I've tried the resulting discs in two standard DVD players with no problems.
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On the plus side, it allows us to run MacOS on our AMD/Intel beige boxes.
My machine can handle Java but I still hate Java software. It's such a clunky way of doing things. Why should an application act like a document (ie. open within another program)?
Last time I tried to use a Java BT client it failed due to some security related bullshit that prevented my version of the VM accessing the Internet. Yeah sure, I'll download a newer version that is ten times the size of the program I actually want. Fuck that, BitComet has a native Win32 executable - I'll use that instead.
Theft has victims.
Driving fast, but otherwise safely, doesn't.
IIRC, it was called aluminum by its discoverer and some Brit added the i for the very reason you state.
So the American way isn't lazy, but actually more correct*.
*As a non-American myself, it kills me to say that.
I think most people are in the same boat as you. However I predict many people, rather than go back to dial-up, would simply switch to a cheaper (200MB cap) broadband plan to keep the snappy response and convenience of always-on.
Still, it will hurt ISPs.
For some reason (please someone explain why), the 1B = 10dB rule seems to apply only when measuring actual sound (as apposed to an electrical signal representing the sound). In most cases 1B = 20dB!
This would explain why the dynamic range of 16 bit audio is 96.33dB (20 * log(2^16)) instead of 48.165dB (10 * log(2^16)) as logic would suggest.
Over in PAL land you can use MPEG Layer 2 for the audio. You can use it for NTSC discs too but it breaks the standard. It should play on any PAL or SVCD capable player though. Its not as good as AC3, but it still offers significant space savings.
If anything it's the downloader who makes the copy. The three step to copying anything are reading the original, transfering it, and writing the copy. Step three happens at the downloader's end. (I'll admit FTP and email create a bit of a grey area with this logic)
Another way of looking at it is the computer you download from gives you the file because you told it to. If you initiate the transfer you are responsible for it and you are responsible for what happens to it when it arrives at your end.If we assume silence is the complete absense of any sound then I believe the answer is my username!
1 times the quietest human audible sound is log1* Bells** (0)
* base = 102 times the quietest human audible sound is log2 Bells (0.301)
10 times the quietest human audible sound is log10 Bells (1)
0 times the quietest human audible sound is log0 (that's me) Bells (Woah my calculator don't like that - I think it's minus infinity)
** 1 Bell = 10 deciBells
Thanks for the info. I'll use that next time I get fired.
1. Slip money under cover of photocopier2. Set number of copies to 100
3. Press COPY
4. Quietly walk away (unless an alarm goes off - in which case run!)
Very clever idea and I'd imagine it would be very easy to do (you could probably do it now with firewalls). All we need is a new version of an existing popular app that detects the country it is in and refuses all connections within that country*. It would appear like a regular node in the existing network.
The main problems would be increased international bandwidth use (which could increase ISP costs), slightly higher ping times (who cares) and more unavailable files appearing in the search results.
The drawbacks are minor (although it'd piss the ISPs off - hopefully it'll turn them against the **AA) and it would definitely perform better than Freenet.
I wouldn't be supprised though if the **AA started paying overseas companies to do the searching for them (whoops there's another IT job outsourced to India).
*Yes I mean all connections both up and down as downloading can be detected and is still illegal in many countries.
Yeah! And why is it that the regions 2-6 discs only work in the region they were released in even though they've already been released in other regions? I mean if a DVD is released in Europe a couple of months after the US, shouldn't the European version be playable in US players also?
Sometimes I think they set the region purely out of habit. I live in Australia (region 4) and had to import the Lion King from the UK and get this - the disc is set to play in both regions 2 and 4. It hasn't even been released in region 4 (and won't be 'til March 2004). But it won't play in region 1 even though it was released there on the same day as it was in the UK.
Sure there is.
Manure = shit
So you could say that a bible is manure but you couldn't say manure is a bible.Bible = bull shit
That's progress. The largest library in the world can only store 0.0244% as much information as something built thousands of years ago to store one man's corpse.
Why not? If you have to live by them, it's only fair you have a say in making them.
That seams strange. Are you referring to the set top DVD recorders (that encode and burn at the same time)? I've only ever burnt DVD-R[W] and only ever encoded in VBR. I've used two different authoring apps and neither of them gave any compliance warnings. I've tried the resulting discs in two standard DVD players with no problems.