There was that whole issue about certain submarine patents in GIF that's now finally come to a close, and the fact that JPEG is not good for non-live pictures (e.g. screenshots, logos, alpha-channel images). The best you can do is use all three formats where appropriate, and rely on SVG for scalable graphics (Adobe has an SVG plugin for IE, and all other web browsers support SVG quite well).
/bin/rm (as well as any other dynamically linked binary in/bin or/sbin) only links to libraries in/lib. For this reason, it is possible to dynamically link them without worrying about/usr et al.
I don't think we have those here in the US (which would be around $60-$70 converted and assuming you don't have any extra taxes/tariffs imposed on that price).
Now if they ever get effective DRM it will be back.
Which is effectively impossible to do with CDs. [Audio] CDs follow what is known as the Red Book Compact Disc Digital Audio standard. This is where the CDDA trademark we all know and love from CDs comes from. Said standard does not allow anything but PCM audio data, thus it is impossible to create a CD that both contains "effective" DRM as well as follows the Red Book standard (which is required in order to use the CDDA trademark on your CDs).
I've noticed that most audio CDs (whether they follow the Red Book standard or not) come in jewel cases that still contain the CDDA logo, so I'm pretty sure that would make them liable for trademark infringement if they don't follow the CDDA/Red Book standard.
I think the important part here is that you're getting the intended audio (i.e. the PCM data that was originally pressed at the factory from the master copy) rather than the potentially-scratched probably-incorrect-in-some-places PCM-like data from the disc.
He might be referring to the fact that all the sounds are downsampled to 2-channel 44.1 kHz 16-bit PCM audio rather than the audiophile favourite 5.1-channel ~2 MHz 192-bit HD audio. The fact that the audio is compressed at all after it's done being mixed (or in any step of the process) will incite an audiophile to denounce the format.
Unless you're a big name publisher (e.g. O'Reilly), you probably have nothing to worry about piracy of ebooks. The only ebooks that seem to get pirated presently are ones regarding gambling, illegal things, and other "grey" things.
Besides, look at Baen Books; they're a very popular SciFi publishing company that publishes their books in DRM-free formats.
I'm not really a JavaScript programmer, but being a Java programmer, I can suggest that you find a class/method/function that can parse XML into a DOM object. Usually, said function is part of the DOM framework for the specific language, and since DOM is most useful to JavaScript and server-side languages, I'm pretty sure you'll find all the DOM you need in JS.
I've read that you can back up essentially an unlimited amount of times per song, but the limit is enforced on playlists (since you burn playlists in iTunes) which is something like 3 or 5 times.
I'd hardly consider FIOS to be FTTP; Japan is getting about 30M/30M up/down, and Tokyo is getting around 50M/50M up/down (realistic numbers, not advertised ones). In fact, they've had reasonable FTTP services for a few years now, yet we can't even give people realistic amounts of bandwidth.
In my experience, even a registered version of RAR (legit actually:O) compressing with max compression is still beat by tar/bz2 for textual things. 7z can do even better, so sometimes RAR isn't that great.
What RAR is good for is cross platform file splitting, parity files (borrowed concept from RAID 5 and co), and the ability to archive without compressing. This is why it is used in the "scene" all the time.
Even in Chicago, the choice is Comcast and SBC Yahoo (now at&t Yahoo), so the argument saying that high-density areas get more competition isn't always right (and if you don't think Chicago is dense, them I'm going to say that Tokyo is filled with farmlands because almost nobody lives there).
The Libertarian stance on this: anything and everything the government touches will get fucked up, and the cause of the problem with net neutrality is the lack of competition, so that problem should be solved and not one of net neutrality.
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MPlayer (and in general, FFmpeg) can decode everything you mentioned in your post and more, and it's GPL.
There was that whole issue about certain submarine patents in GIF that's now finally come to a close, and the fact that JPEG is not good for non-live pictures (e.g. screenshots, logos, alpha-channel images). The best you can do is use all three formats where appropriate, and rely on SVG for scalable graphics (Adobe has an SVG plugin for IE, and all other web browsers support SVG quite well).
/bin/rm (as well as any other dynamically linked binary in /bin or /sbin) only links to libraries in /lib. For this reason, it is possible to dynamically link them without worrying about /usr et al.
I don't think we have those here in the US (which would be around $60-$70 converted and assuming you don't have any extra taxes/tariffs imposed on that price).
I've noticed that most audio CDs (whether they follow the Red Book standard or not) come in jewel cases that still contain the CDDA logo, so I'm pretty sure that would make them liable for trademark infringement if they don't follow the CDDA/Red Book standard.
I think the important part here is that you're getting the intended audio (i.e. the PCM data that was originally pressed at the factory from the master copy) rather than the potentially-scratched probably-incorrect-in-some-places PCM-like data from the disc.
He might be referring to the fact that all the sounds are downsampled to 2-channel 44.1 kHz 16-bit PCM audio rather than the audiophile favourite 5.1-channel ~2 MHz 192-bit HD audio. The fact that the audio is compressed at all after it's done being mixed (or in any step of the process) will incite an audiophile to denounce the format.
10 gigs? How many different subprojects did you guys have? 20?
And whoever modded it insightful clearly knows shit about music...
Good job taking shit out of context. Read the whole parable in Luke 19:11-27.
Unless you're a big name publisher (e.g. O'Reilly), you probably have nothing to worry about piracy of ebooks. The only ebooks that seem to get pirated presently are ones regarding gambling, illegal things, and other "grey" things.
Besides, look at Baen Books; they're a very popular SciFi publishing company that publishes their books in DRM-free formats.
The astroturfing is strong today...
Must be Sunday.
I'm not really a JavaScript programmer, but being a Java programmer, I can suggest that you find a class/method/function that can parse XML into a DOM object. Usually, said function is part of the DOM framework for the specific language, and since DOM is most useful to JavaScript and server-side languages, I'm pretty sure you'll find all the DOM you need in JS.
I've read that you can back up essentially an unlimited amount of times per song, but the limit is enforced on playlists (since you burn playlists in iTunes) which is something like 3 or 5 times.
I'd hardly consider FIOS to be FTTP; Japan is getting about 30M/30M up/down, and Tokyo is getting around 50M/50M up/down (realistic numbers, not advertised ones). In fact, they've had reasonable FTTP services for a few years now, yet we can't even give people realistic amounts of bandwidth.
Oh really?
In my experience, even a registered version of RAR (legit actually :O) compressing with max compression is still beat by tar/bz2 for textual things. 7z can do even better, so sometimes RAR isn't that great.
What RAR is good for is cross platform file splitting, parity files (borrowed concept from RAID 5 and co), and the ability to archive without compressing. This is why it is used in the "scene" all the time.
No, you're paying for their overly excessive marketing budgets.
That's why they say "quid" in real life (like we say "bucks").
Or in the case of exploding batteries, burnt already.
Even in Chicago, the choice is Comcast and SBC Yahoo (now at&t Yahoo), so the argument saying that high-density areas get more competition isn't always right (and if you don't think Chicago is dense, them I'm going to say that Tokyo is filled with farmlands because almost nobody lives there).
The Libertarian stance on this: anything and everything the government touches will get fucked up, and the cause of the problem with net neutrality is the lack of competition, so that problem should be solved and not one of net neutrality.
The ones that won't be able to afford the "high-speed lane" from dozens of different ISPs.
You mean 4 instead of 10 you insensitive clod!
Dude, it's easy, just press + and - in really fast succession. ± See?