You can't measure sound quality objectively (in a meaningful way), because our hearing is, well, subjective.
You can compare spectrograms (or whatever) all you like, but they won't tell you much about how a listener will percieve the sound. In some cases, very small differences (e.g. phase differences between left and right ear) can be very noticeable. In other cases, two very different-looking spectrograms might be indistinguishable, due to e.g. masking effects.
This is something that lossy compression methods such as MP3 exploit. By removing frequency ranges that are masked out, they can decrease the amount of data, while hopefully keeping all the audiable information intact (assuming they are using a sufficiently accurate psychoacoustic model). In fact, any good lossy compression will show big differences in before/after spectrograms, but that's irrelevant. What's important is what it sounds like.
The only way to test sound quality is to do double-blind listening tests (aka ABX).
Right. So, I assume that objects can't be orange unless they are made of oranges, and only violets can be violet? Of course, the same goes for beige, turquoise, indigo and pretty much any other color beyond black, white, red, blue, green and yellow.
Either that, or "chocolate", "vanilla", "burnt rubber", "red berries" etc are simply descriptions of flavors, just as "chartreuse", "lime" and "burnt umber" are descriptions of colors. Lacking a better way to classify and describe sensations, the only way to give an idea of how something tastes is to compare it to other, well known tastes.
Seriously. While they've always been a bit sensationalistic and required quite a few grains of salt, they used to be at least semi-interesting, and occationally at least somewhat funny.
Nowadays, all their articles seem to be written by brainless trolls.
What I know is not coming out of any of those places (except for Germany) is any code or anything else useful, which makes me wonder how many people are really sitting in front of a Linux system
Forgive my ignorance, but what kind of code are you expecting? I wasn't aware that sitting in front of a Linux system instantly turned secretaries into coders.
"Well basically, I just copied the plant we have now. Then, I added some fins to lower wind resistance. And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp." -- Homer
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, the best place to find music and sound related software for Linux based systems is Dave Phillips's site linux-sound.org. It lists, among other things, lots of notation software and helpful tools for musicians.
Well, that's because you're looking at the rendered HTML;| Remember, this is a site for nerds, you're supposed to care about stuff like what code looks like, whether it complies to standards or not etc. The new code (while not completely valid) is actually quite readable, whereas the old "HTML" looked like it had passed through the digestion system of a ruminant.
Of course, there are plenty of real benefits to using CSS, such as making it possible to have alternative stylesheets, which change the look complete without tuching the HTML (e.g. CSSZengarden), (probably) making the pages smaller (=>less bandwidth) and it opens the door to a whole lot of new cool features.
Start by contacting OOo's marketing people, I'm sure they can help you. Also, the OOo Newsletter usually has a section listing high-profile success stories.
I've used Drupal a bit and I like it, especially compared to other PHP-based CMSs that I've messed with. Also, it has a pretty active community of developers and users, and is actively developed, extended and all sorts of modules are created all the time.
However, the i18n module does have some limitations. In my case, different parts of the content are created in different languages, and later translated (or not). But in Drupal, if you visit the English version of the site you won't see the French content that hasn't been translated into English (and the other way around).
Of course, for many sites, that might be the behaviour you want (IOW, you don't wan't English speaking people to see any French or Japanese pages, until they've been translated), but for my site, it's pretty important that all users can access all content even if it's not the correct language.
In Drupal, you can choose to make content language neutral, and then it will be shown no matter what language you're viewing. But, if you create a translation of such a page, the translated version will be displayed *as well as* the language neutral one. In other words, if you start translating a page, you have to create translations for all languages at the same time (and give the original version a specific language), or the page will either show up twice in languages with translations, or not at all in untranslated langugages.
I've worked around this on my site, with a bunch of ugly, klugdy and badly performing hacks, which I hope to have time to clean up some time (and perhaps make them general enough so that they can be used by other people).
I am flabbergasted that the
"big brother" hired pedants
can brainwash and indoctrinate
the powerful antipode human
mind to ignore the simple math
of 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth,
to worship one and trash three.
Magnificient evil job by teachers.
This is clearly false and evil. The Time Cube has exactly 4 dimensions.
The problem is that Mozilla uses Mork to store the history, and Mork databases are more or less impossible to extract usable data from. So you don't really have much of a choice;)
It's still an artificial restriction. Technology advances and becomes more capable. The fact that certain restrictions existed in a previous generation of technology doesn't mean it makes sense for new technology. It's like having a speed limit of 10 km/h for cars because horse-drawn carriages can't travell any faster than that.
Only if the diuretic effect isn't compensated by the water that coffee contains. AFAIK, coffee isn't dehydrating unless it's really, really strong (but I guess the diuretic effect varies a bit from person to person). So, if you're afraid of dehydration, just drink a glass of water with you coffee.
How many people are aware that when their Nokia sends "dah dah dah dit dit dah dah dah" it is in fact sending "SMS" in morse to indicate Short Message System? I hear it all the time, and nobody knows why it beeps like that!
Hay, that gives me an idea. Instead of beeping "S-M-S" when a message is recieved, why not have the phone beep the actual message -- in morse code? (Okay, might get annoying if you recieve a very long message and it might not be so great if you get a top s3kr1t message from your mistress.)
That's interesting, considering that the Java license only permits distribution if you don't distribute "additional software intended to replace any component(s) of the Software", and the same ftp directory contains GCJ...
I assume Suse managed to get a license to distribute Java anyway?
Perhaps that's the point of patents in today's perverted world. However, the original idea was that patents would encourage and stimulate invention and sharing of ideas. Instead of everyone trying to hide their methods from their competitors, the patent system gives inventors exclusive rights to their inventions in exchange for sharing information about the invention.
However, the patent system doesn't guarentee financial gain for anyone (except for patent lawyers, that is). In some areas (e.g. medical research) the patent system works great and is necessary for a lot of the research to be commercially feasible. In other areas (CS) it rarely does any good, but instead causes lots of problems and actually inhibits innovation.
The license is meant for people distributing Java applications, not for Linux distributions. Most distributions will be disqualified because they distribute gcj/kaffe/GNU Classpath or (possibly) other languages like Python/Perl etc (it all depends on what Sun's lawyers mean by B(iii)).
SuSE and Mandrake^H^H^Hiva aren't based on Red Hat (at least not in same way that Ubuntu etc are based on Debian). They all use RPM, sure, but that's about it. SuSE and Mandriva make their own packages, their own installers and everything else.
There are plenty of Red Hat/Fedora based distros, such as Cent OS, White Box and lots of specialized or local distros, but I doubt they make a big difference when you add up the numbers.
And this isn't a very scientific survey either, it's just a web poll, so it's no more accurate than, say the Slashdot polls. E.g., the distro that got the most votes was actually Yoper. However, they chose to exclude Yoper from the chart, since it's pretty obvious that their votes came from their very dedicated users.
IOW, it's impossible to draw any conclusions whatsoever from the data, except it might be an interesting example of how biased web polls can be.
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So, why did the Bush administration lie?
What version are you using? GIMP has had a preview for unsharp mask since at least version 2.2.
You can compare spectrograms (or whatever) all you like, but they won't tell you much about how a listener will percieve the sound. In some cases, very small differences (e.g. phase differences between left and right ear) can be very noticeable. In other cases, two very different-looking spectrograms might be indistinguishable, due to e.g. masking effects.
This is something that lossy compression methods such as MP3 exploit. By removing frequency ranges that are masked out, they can decrease the amount of data, while hopefully keeping all the audiable information intact (assuming they are using a sufficiently accurate psychoacoustic model). In fact, any good lossy compression will show big differences in before/after spectrograms, but that's irrelevant. What's important is what it sounds like.
The only way to test sound quality is to do double-blind listening tests (aka ABX).
Either that, or "chocolate", "vanilla", "burnt rubber", "red berries" etc are simply descriptions of flavors, just as "chartreuse", "lime" and "burnt umber" are descriptions of colors. Lacking a better way to classify and describe sensations, the only way to give an idea of how something tastes is to compare it to other, well known tastes.
Nowadays, all their articles seem to be written by brainless trolls.
Forgive my ignorance, but what kind of code are you expecting? I wasn't aware that sitting in front of a Linux system instantly turned secretaries into coders.
Yeah, it's kinda like when books about cheese aren't made of cheese. I hate that!
"Well basically, I just copied the plant we have now. Then, I added some fins to lower wind resistance. And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp." -- Homer
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, the best place to find music and sound related software for Linux based systems is Dave Phillips's site linux-sound.org. It lists, among other things, lots of notation software and helpful tools for musicians.
Of course, there are plenty of real benefits to using CSS, such as making it possible to have alternative stylesheets, which change the look complete without tuching the HTML (e.g. CSSZengarden), (probably) making the pages smaller (=>less bandwidth) and it opens the door to a whole lot of new cool features.
Start by contacting OOo's marketing people, I'm sure they can help you. Also, the OOo Newsletter usually has a section listing high-profile success stories.
However, the i18n module does have some limitations. In my case, different parts of the content are created in different languages, and later translated (or not). But in Drupal, if you visit the English version of the site you won't see the French content that hasn't been translated into English (and the other way around).
Of course, for many sites, that might be the behaviour you want (IOW, you don't wan't English speaking people to see any French or Japanese pages, until they've been translated), but for my site, it's pretty important that all users can access all content even if it's not the correct language.
In Drupal, you can choose to make content language neutral, and then it will be shown no matter what language you're viewing. But, if you create a translation of such a page, the translated version will be displayed *as well as* the language neutral one. In other words, if you start translating a page, you have to create translations for all languages at the same time (and give the original version a specific language), or the page will either show up twice in languages with translations, or not at all in untranslated langugages.
I've worked around this on my site, with a bunch of ugly, klugdy and badly performing hacks, which I hope to have time to clean up some time (and perhaps make them general enough so that they can be used by other people).
This is clearly false and evil. The Time Cube has exactly 4 dimensions.
An open mind is a slop bucket, "THINK CUBIC".
It's in the OOo FAQ.
The problem is that Mozilla uses Mork to store the history, and Mork databases are more or less impossible to extract usable data from. So you don't really have much of a choice ;)
It's still an artificial restriction. Technology advances and becomes more capable. The fact that certain restrictions existed in a previous generation of technology doesn't mean it makes sense for new technology. It's like having a speed limit of 10 km/h for cars because horse-drawn carriages can't travell any faster than that.
I assume Suse managed to get a license to distribute Java anyway?
However, the patent system doesn't guarentee financial gain for anyone (except for patent lawyers, that is). In some areas (e.g. medical research) the patent system works great and is necessary for a lot of the research to be commercially feasible. In other areas (CS) it rarely does any good, but instead causes lots of problems and actually inhibits innovation.
- Read the comment you replied to
- Read the license fragment you pasted
The license is meant for people distributing Java applications, not for Linux distributions. Most distributions will be disqualified because they distribute gcj/kaffe/GNU Classpath or (possibly) other languages like Python/Perl etc (it all depends on what Sun's lawyers mean by B(iii)).Also, B(vi) doesn't look very nice.
There are plenty of Red Hat/Fedora based distros, such as Cent OS, White Box and lots of specialized or local distros, but I doubt they make a big difference when you add up the numbers.
IOW, it's impossible to draw any conclusions whatsoever from the data, except it might be an interesting example of how biased web polls can be.