I've always felt sorry for the people who have deliberately learnt to notice a minor quality loss that would not normally and thus ruined thier own ability to enjoy music without spending lots of money on expensive equipment.
the cheap way to buy hits is to buy compilations, theese are priced similarlly to albums and have a collection of recent hits from various artists on them (they are often double CD sets with 20 odd tracks on each) but they don't come out until quite some time after the music is released and are only good for those who have a wide enough taste to find compilations that fit. CD singles are as you say overpriced basically if you want all the hit singles on an album it is cheaper to buy the album than to buy CD singles.
anon contributors tend to be the sort that only make minor contributions, sure they fix a typo or add something useful from time to time but it is the long termers who do the real meat of the editing trying to keep structure to the articles, add citations and so on.
This sounds like the kind of law that is very vulnerable to fiddling, how is 40% made in brazil defined? is it 40% of the parts? 40% of the total spend including assembly labour? Either way how do you stop them setting up a brazillian sister company who sell them certain parts made in brazil at above normal market value so they don't get caught in the import tax?
It also seems like it would be very easy for the government to accuse a company of fiddling the books and very hard for a company to prove they didn't.
I'd like to see something similar to the Symbian Signed design, but with one critical change: a free cert should be available that would allow you to sign binaries on your individual phone with no restrictions on what the binary can do afaict devcerts are free, it's not "no restrictions" but it is a lot less restrictricted than what you can do with a self signed cert. Of course you can only use apps signed that way on phones included in your devcert request (they ask for IMEI numbers) and you get a warning on installation but for what you want it sounds fine.
With SS, AFAIK, self-signed binaries can't use the network, etc. accrding to the forum nokia wiki ( http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/NetworkServices )you should be able to use the networkservices capability with a self signed cert, remember you have to explicitly set what capabilities you want for your application (in carbide.vs it is a menu item not sure about other environments).
the site seems to be a bit slow right now, the main page just seems to go to a flash intro that never ends (though this may have to do with using the flash plugin via a wrapper in amd64 iceweasel). I managed to find a direct link to the store, entered a price of 0.0 (I'm not paying for stuff from a band i've never heared of) and got put in rather a long "we value your custom" queue.
after that I got prompted to enter an email address and password, I then got a "your details are not valid message and thrown back in the queue". Realised i'd gone for the wrong section and I had to click on to another page to create a new account. Lots of personal information requested. then a confirmation page and a capatcha. Finally an "order confirmation" page with the download link.
The download itself was ok, maxed out my (admittedly only 2 megabit) internet connection.
all in all the torrent would probablly have been more conviniant.
Precisely! It makes me wonder... what if bands started following suit and posting links to torrents and an optional donation box on an official band website, especially ones that have come and said that already encourage people to download their album. Would a label really sue one of their own bands for copyright infringment... of the band's own music? hell yes, i'm quite sure record companies have exclusivity clauses in thier agreements with the bands and I am quite sure they would sue to enforce them if a band tried to bypass them without thier permission, especially if they tried to make money that way.
you can do some stuff on a nokia phone with no signing, apparently if you want to do stuff that requires signing it is damn expensive to get your releases signed though (for development you can get a devcert which I think is free but it is IMEI locked to a small list of phones so you can't use it for distribution)
there is the odd error in the client-server parts but you can get something that generally works by following it.
the server-server protocol is as you say ignored by all the major networks. Since operating an irc network that lets anyone hook up to it is a bad idea anyway due to design faults in irc there is no real need for the server-server protocol to be standardised.
In summary: if your sampling of a signal is band-limited -- and there's no reason for it to not be band-limited within the range of human hearing -- it is possible to perfectly reproduce the original signal from a digital sampling as long as your sampling rate is at least twice your bandwidth. it is possible to perfectly reduce the signal from a sampling if you have perfect filters but perfect filters cannot exist.
furthermore digital sampling implies not just sampling but also quantisation.
with XP while the activation pissed some people off only home users and small buisnesses who bought legit had to put up with it. Corps, educational establishments and pirates got a slightly different version which did not have that misfeature. Most of the rest of the bad things about XP were bugs and bloat. Bugs were fixed and bloat became less significant with time. Vista pushes it's activation on everyone except those prepared to buy big brand OEM and prepare seperate images for every brand of machine.
but sadly I suspect you are right, apps are king and once vista is the only version of windows that is reasonablly availible people will use it whether they like it or not.
Or would it be safer to say that 20 bit pointers and memory banking is what got you capable of using a full meg of memory? Actually that wouldn't be entirely correct either
Real mode on the 8086 and derivitives is a bit weired in this regard.
Memory is divided into segments, each segment is 64K but the segments overlap such that there were 64K segments. This meant that the system could allocate blocks of memory starting at the start of a segment with 16 byte granularity.
pointers come in two types, near pointers and far pointers, near pointers are 16 bit and can only point to stuff in the current segment (note: there are seperate current segments for code and data), far pointers have seperate 16 bit fields for segment and offset (giving a total pointer size of 32 bit) and can point to any location in any segment.
or you could just buy with vista buisness (or ulitmate if you like throwing money away or you think you might want to go back to vista later and you want the extra features) and excercise your downgrade rights to XP pro. This method is almost certainly easier than trying to extract a refund from MS and also means you can upgrade back to vista in the future.
Sure you are technically paying for vista but I don't think there is any significant difference in price between XP pro and vista buisness for OEMs.
I prefer letting them know how many files I applied the operation to and how many remaining. the problem is to even do that you have to build the list of files to copy in advance of starting the copy.
Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB or less. to be fair to MS that is the third workaround in the list and the first one (setting a size limit on the vcache) is far more sensible.
actually this is one of the nice things about installing windows on a mac. you install windows (which involves one reboot) and then you install the apple drivers (I don't think this requires a reboot and it certainly doesn't require more than one). Contrast this to most PCs where you have to install loads of drivers seperately and often need to reboot in between.
I don't know if the ISO committee has that rule but there are apparently 6 non Microsoft implementations (including the iPhone reader). The devil is in the details, undoubtably people can get some approximation of a documents content from the XML file, they managed to do that with word documents a long time ago. Reliablly reading complex documents without screwing up the formatting is much harder. Even msword itself strugles to do it with documents from different versions.
not that odf is much better but at least you can look to the openoffice source for cases where the spec is too vauge to be usefull.
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Also- What format is the album in? What bitrate?
according to another poster (haven't checked myself) it is 160kbps mp3
I wonder if a tool that can open zips on a webserver and download individual files from them would be worthwhile.
I've always felt sorry for the people who have deliberately learnt to notice a minor quality loss that would not normally and thus ruined thier own ability to enjoy music without spending lots of money on expensive equipment.
the cheap way to buy hits is to buy compilations, theese are priced similarlly to albums and have a collection of recent hits from various artists on them (they are often double CD sets with 20 odd tracks on each) but they don't come out until quite some time after the music is released and are only good for those who have a wide enough taste to find compilations that fit. CD singles are as you say overpriced basically if you want all the hit singles on an album it is cheaper to buy the album than to buy CD singles.
anon contributors tend to be the sort that only make minor contributions, sure they fix a typo or add something useful from time to time but it is the long termers who do the real meat of the editing trying to keep structure to the articles, add citations and so on.
This sounds like the kind of law that is very vulnerable to fiddling, how is 40% made in brazil defined? is it 40% of the parts? 40% of the total spend including assembly labour? Either way how do you stop them setting up a brazillian sister company who sell them certain parts made in brazil at above normal market value so they don't get caught in the import tax?
It also seems like it would be very easy for the government to accuse a company of fiddling the books and very hard for a company to prove they didn't.
am I the only one who thinks that laws that cause destruction of perfectly servicable equipment to avoid taxes are fucked up?
I'd like to see something similar to the Symbian Signed design, but with one critical change: a free cert should be available that would allow you to sign binaries on your individual phone with no restrictions on what the binary can do
afaict devcerts are free, it's not "no restrictions" but it is a lot less restrictricted than what you can do with a self signed cert. Of course you can only use apps signed that way on phones included in your devcert request (they ask for IMEI numbers) and you get a warning on installation but for what you want it sounds fine.
With SS, AFAIK, self-signed binaries can't use the network, etc.
accrding to the forum nokia wiki ( http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/NetworkServices )you should be able to use the networkservices capability with a self signed cert, remember you have to explicitly set what capabilities you want for your application (in carbide.vs it is a menu item not sure about other environments).
the site seems to be a bit slow right now, the main page just seems to go to a flash intro that never ends (though this may have to do with using the flash plugin via a wrapper in amd64 iceweasel). I managed to find a direct link to the store, entered a price of 0.0 (I'm not paying for stuff from a band i've never heared of) and got put in rather a long "we value your custom" queue.
after that I got prompted to enter an email address and password, I then got a "your details are not valid message and thrown back in the queue". Realised i'd gone for the wrong section and I had to click on to another page to create a new account. Lots of personal information requested. then a confirmation page and a capatcha. Finally an "order confirmation" page with the download link.
The download itself was ok, maxed out my (admittedly only 2 megabit) internet connection.
all in all the torrent would probablly have been more conviniant.
Precisely! It makes me wonder... what if bands started following suit and posting links to torrents and an optional donation box on an official band website, especially ones that have come and said that already encourage people to download their album. Would a label really sue one of their own bands for copyright infringment... of the band's own music?
hell yes, i'm quite sure record companies have exclusivity clauses in thier agreements with the bands and I am quite sure they would sue to enforce them if a band tried to bypass them without thier permission, especially if they tried to make money that way.
you can do some stuff on a nokia phone with no signing, apparently if you want to do stuff that requires signing it is damn expensive to get your releases signed though (for development you can get a devcert which I think is free but it is IMEI locked to a small list of phones so you can't use it for distribution)
there is the odd error in the client-server parts but you can get something that generally works by following it.
the server-server protocol is as you say ignored by all the major networks. Since operating an irc network that lets anyone hook up to it is a bad idea anyway due to design faults in irc there is no real need for the server-server protocol to be standardised.
no you don't decapitate them you capture them and torture them until they give you the control keys ;)
In summary: if your sampling of a signal is band-limited -- and there's no reason for it to not be band-limited within the range of human hearing -- it is possible to perfectly reproduce the original signal from a digital sampling as long as your sampling rate is at least twice your bandwidth.
it is possible to perfectly reduce the signal from a sampling if you have perfect filters but perfect filters cannot exist.
furthermore digital sampling implies not just sampling but also quantisation.
while that phrase is somewhat funny there isn't any truth in it.
with XP while the activation pissed some people off only home users and small buisnesses who bought legit had to put up with it. Corps, educational establishments and pirates got a slightly different version which did not have that misfeature. Most of the rest of the bad things about XP were bugs and bloat. Bugs were fixed and bloat became less significant with time. Vista pushes it's activation on everyone except those prepared to buy big brand OEM and prepare seperate images for every brand of machine.
but sadly I suspect you are right, apps are king and once vista is the only version of windows that is reasonablly availible people will use it whether they like it or not.
yeah lets be honest, the first thing a geek is going to do when he sits down at a new PC is to tweak it so it feels like home.
what do you call windows NT then?
Or would it be safer to say that 20 bit pointers and memory banking is what got you capable of using a full meg of memory?
Actually that wouldn't be entirely correct either
Real mode on the 8086 and derivitives is a bit weired in this regard.
Memory is divided into segments, each segment is 64K but the segments overlap such that there were 64K segments. This meant that the system could allocate blocks of memory starting at the start of a segment with 16 byte granularity.
pointers come in two types, near pointers and far pointers, near pointers are 16 bit and can only point to stuff in the current segment (note: there are seperate current segments for code and data), far pointers have seperate 16 bit fields for segment and offset (giving a total pointer size of 32 bit) and can point to any location in any segment.
or you could just buy with vista buisness (or ulitmate if you like throwing money away or you think you might want to go back to vista later and you want the extra features) and excercise your downgrade rights to XP pro. This method is almost certainly easier than trying to extract a refund from MS and also means you can upgrade back to vista in the future.
Sure you are technically paying for vista but I don't think there is any significant difference in price between XP pro and vista buisness for OEMs.
I prefer letting them know how many files I applied the operation to and how many remaining.
the problem is to even do that you have to build the list of files to copy in advance of starting the copy.
imo a file copier should not have any need to count the number of files for anything other than non critical status display in the first place.
Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB or less.
to be fair to MS that is the third workaround in the list and the first one (setting a size limit on the vcache) is far more sensible.
actually this is one of the nice things about installing windows on a mac. you install windows (which involves one reboot) and then you install the apple drivers (I don't think this requires a reboot and it certainly doesn't require more than one). Contrast this to most PCs where you have to install loads of drivers seperately and often need to reboot in between.
I don't know if the ISO committee has that rule but there are apparently 6 non Microsoft implementations (including the iPhone reader).
The devil is in the details, undoubtably people can get some approximation of a documents content from the XML file, they managed to do that with word documents a long time ago. Reliablly reading complex documents without screwing up the formatting is much harder. Even msword itself strugles to do it with documents from different versions.
not that odf is much better but at least you can look to the openoffice source for cases where the spec is too vauge to be usefull.
sure but it is something that would have to happen at the complete iso level with major publicity, one pissed off commitee isn't going to manage it.