He may be attempting to revoke the license for liability reasons (i.e., someone has made noises about suing him for having this software out there). Forking it means he's still liable, even if he's not associated with the fork at all.
The fact that the GPL doesn't allow you to limit your liability in this manner is why I don't like the GPL. It's just another means to make the software non-free, despite its supposed intent.
The fear they're trying to play to is that there won't be any more movies (music, publicly consumable entertainment, what have you) made. The implication of that 44% figure is "we're losing so much money we might as well have everyone get out of this business and move to a more profitable field, such as plumbing".
Just because it's not a fear related to subsistence doesn't mean they aren't trying to make people afraid about something.
I presume there was a way to make the correction Yes, probably by whistling extremely loudly. (Most people can't do a very loud whistle at two pitches separated by at least five semitones [to make things easier to distinguish], nor can they change pitches between those two very quickly, so whistled communication isn't very common as a substitute for things like this. It is, however, used by some groups. It's also extremely annoying to pull this over the phone.:-D)
Talk about a shit job. How many of them jumped out of the towers to their own death out of sheer boredom? Not nearly as many as probably made amusing edits to messages on occasion.
...is presumably the same as the whole "golden record" on the Voyager probes, more likely than not. Which is pretty horribly inefficient.
Simplest way to store these in a non-lossy format would be to use something like, say, a "linear DVD" - which would bear more of a resemblance to a punch card or the metal "cards" the Difference Engine would have used than anything else. Divide each "card" into 13 zones and use microscopic holes (rather than simple changes in brightness) to encode one channel (vR, vG, vB, aFL, aFC, aFR, aCL, aC, aCR, aBL, aBC, aBR, aSW) per zone, one frame per row (for the audio channels, an amount of 32-bit mono audio equivalent to one video frame's duration), at whatever the native (both pixel and time) resolution is.
For those of you wondering how big these holes would be, they'd be roughly 7.5nm in size (for a card sized to match letter-size paper) - larger bits than even a CD. This leads to a capacity of about 13,000 hours per "card" - and the resulting system, due to being a primarily mechanical recording rather than primarily optical, is more resilient to changes over time.
It's obviously not a format that's readily implemented for a home computer, but as for archival purposes, it'd work quite nicely.
There are still radio stations that do it - and not just one side of an album, but the whole thing.
I'm going to refer you to our local station that does it, here on the other side of the Cascades from UO - 98.3 KTWS. If you're within about 70 miles of Bend, you'll be able to pick it up.
Monday through Thursday at 9pm is "Laser Larceny", where they do a whole album (if it's a double album, they tend to do those on consecutive nights).
The other reason they're a great radio station: the twice-annual auction that their parent company (local!) holds out here. I once had the joy of outbidding one of their DJs for a string of pink-flamingo lights. ($5 well spent!)
Well... 60FPS 1080p video is ~1.6TB/hr uncompressed (DVD-quality video, at 480p and 30FPS, is ~160GB/hr uncompressed, for a comparison).
Compressing it to the same rate means a 50GB disk is good enough to hold the whole video, assuming your cables are capable of transmitting the signal to the TV quickly enough - so Blu-Ray has enough space (on a double-layer disk) to store the video without any extras right now at the same compression.
The only conclusion I can get from what you're saying is that DVDs therefore are overcompressed by a factor of 2-4 as well.
I do agree that it'd be nice if we could successfully have, say, the entirety of the LOTR trilogy in uncompressed 1080p ~60FPS on one disk, though (which would take a roughly 20TB disk) - or sufficient bandwidth per channel for the same (~1Gbit/channel * ~600 channels = "hi, your cable bill will be $700/month" probably for the near future).
Am I misinterpreting things when I think that the combination of a universal Turing machine and Gõdel's undecidability theorem ends up proving that for every UTM there exists another Turing Machine (possibly itself, but irrelevant) that can't be simulated on it?
Yes, one is hard science, and the other one is people wanking around with their opinions.
Specifically, the security one is hard science, while the scheduler is the wanking.
Actually I was thinking about the story where the Ramans do everything in threes. Yeah, if it's shaped like a ball with three legs and three "whips", it's a perfect imitation of the "spiders" from the Rama series.
ARE YOU LONELY? No, but I'm horny. Wanna cyber? Why, of course. Never mind the extreme resemblance of the picture I have to Chris Hansen, I'm really a 15-year-old girl.
Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for new smilies and, in turn, users would not have had trojans and botnet tools installed automatically or received expected porn popups. I think I covered what MS meant in their statement.
The question has no actual merit to it - it's like asking why, when you blow up a balloon, the surrounding room isn't counted as part of the balloon because that's where the balloon's surface is expanding into.
The answer, of course, is simply that it isn't part of the balloon.
Likewise with the universe. Think of it as the "surface" (in THREE dimensions, not four, folks) of a 3-sphere (a 4-dimensional object - a bowling ball is a pretty good model of a 2-sphere). The surface continues to expand because the "interior" is being inflated - but the interior isn't itself part of the universe as we know it.
Yes, I realize I've basically given a half-assed summary of the holographic principle here (possibly in reverse).
Sure it's half as likely to catch someone but if the penalties are twice as much then logically it comes out the same. I want to see them apply this logic to the death penalty.
"Yeah, we know there's three other people who we didn't catch... we're gonna kill you four times to make up for it."
Because this "firewall" is about filtering words, not IP addresses. No, it seems to be about blacklisting sites, hence why I had the thought way back there.
It basically boils down to the fact that it is impossible to effectively police the carpool lane vehicle occupant policy (due to the fact that many vehicles have tinted windows and are moving at a high rate of speed, thereby making it difficult to see inside the vehicle), so they have to try and scare people instead. And yet, that doesn't stop people from driving down the road with an inflatable doll in the passenger seat...
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The fact that the GPL doesn't allow you to limit your liability in this manner is why I don't like the GPL. It's just another means to make the software non-free, despite its supposed intent.
Just because it's not a fear related to subsistence doesn't mean they aren't trying to make people afraid about something.
Fearmongering, obviously. "ZOMG IT'S 15 PERCENT" doesn't have quite the same impact as "OH LORD THEY'RE CAUSING NEARLY HALF OUR LOSSES".
It still is. In the same fashion any of the rest of us without a terminal illness are.
"S... E... N... D... send, F... A... R... C... E... S... farces?!"
Simplest way to store these in a non-lossy format would be to use something like, say, a "linear DVD" - which would bear more of a resemblance to a punch card or the metal "cards" the Difference Engine would have used than anything else. Divide each "card" into 13 zones and use microscopic holes (rather than simple changes in brightness) to encode one channel (vR, vG, vB, aFL, aFC, aFR, aCL, aC, aCR, aBL, aBC, aBR, aSW) per zone, one frame per row (for the audio channels, an amount of 32-bit mono audio equivalent to one video frame's duration), at whatever the native (both pixel and time) resolution is.
For those of you wondering how big these holes would be, they'd be roughly 7.5nm in size (for a card sized to match letter-size paper) - larger bits than even a CD. This leads to a capacity of about 13,000 hours per "card" - and the resulting system, due to being a primarily mechanical recording rather than primarily optical, is more resilient to changes over time.
It's obviously not a format that's readily implemented for a home computer, but as for archival purposes, it'd work quite nicely.
I can assure you that for a Beaver fan to say "GO DUCKS", the Ducks must be playing a team ahead of the Beavers in the standings.
And vice-versa as well.
There are still radio stations that do it - and not just one side of an album, but the whole thing.
I'm going to refer you to our local station that does it, here on the other side of the Cascades from UO - 98.3 KTWS. If you're within about 70 miles of Bend, you'll be able to pick it up.
Monday through Thursday at 9pm is "Laser Larceny", where they do a whole album (if it's a double album, they tend to do those on consecutive nights).
The other reason they're a great radio station: the twice-annual auction that their parent company (local!) holds out here. I once had the joy of outbidding one of their DJs for a string of pink-flamingo lights. ($5 well spent!)
Well... 60FPS 1080p video is ~1.6TB/hr uncompressed (DVD-quality video, at 480p and 30FPS, is ~160GB/hr uncompressed, for a comparison).
Compressing it to the same rate means a 50GB disk is good enough to hold the whole video, assuming your cables are capable of transmitting the signal to the TV quickly enough - so Blu-Ray has enough space (on a double-layer disk) to store the video without any extras right now at the same compression.
The only conclusion I can get from what you're saying is that DVDs therefore are overcompressed by a factor of 2-4 as well.
I do agree that it'd be nice if we could successfully have, say, the entirety of the LOTR trilogy in uncompressed 1080p ~60FPS on one disk, though (which would take a roughly 20TB disk) - or sufficient bandwidth per channel for the same (~1Gbit/channel * ~600 channels = "hi, your cable bill will be $700/month" probably for the near future).
Am I misinterpreting things when I think that the combination of a universal Turing machine and Gõdel's undecidability theorem ends up proving that for every UTM there exists another Turing Machine (possibly itself, but irrelevant) that can't be simulated on it?
...would "Practical Neurology" be where you go if you're planning on having a drinking buddy do your brain surgery?
mount /dev/brain /
rm -rf
Yes, one is hard science, and the other one is people wanking around with their opinions. Specifically, the security one is hard science, while the scheduler is the wanking.
No, but I'm horny. Wanna cyber? Why, of course.
Never mind the extreme resemblance of the picture I have to Chris Hansen, I'm really a 15-year-old girl.
Don't you mean "does Emacs run it"?
Ah, yes, the reason I tagged the article "touhouproject".
The question has no actual merit to it - it's like asking why, when you blow up a balloon, the surrounding room isn't counted as part of the balloon because that's where the balloon's surface is expanding into. The answer, of course, is simply that it isn't part of the balloon. Likewise with the universe. Think of it as the "surface" (in THREE dimensions, not four, folks) of a 3-sphere (a 4-dimensional object - a bowling ball is a pretty good model of a 2-sphere). The surface continues to expand because the "interior" is being inflated - but the interior isn't itself part of the universe as we know it. Yes, I realize I've basically given a half-assed summary of the holographic principle here (possibly in reverse).
No?
"Yeah, we know there's three other people who we didn't catch... we're gonna kill you four times to make up for it."
...that the "Great Firewall" is only filtering packets that are outbound from China.
Not necessarily likely, mind you, but it's possible.