the explanation is rather burried in the comments but its not a surprising one to me. PDF is based on postscript and aims at preserving visual layout NOT any form of semantic information.
what are the licenseing terms you use it under? Is there a way you can effectively make your position regarding being allowed to use it secure for a long timer?
whilst what rutan achived is commendable calling it spaceflight is a bit of a stretch. Its a bit like comparing an object thrown in the air with an aircraft.
The only feasible way to stay out of the earths atnosphere is to go into orbit but orbit is far far harder to achive than the little stunts runtan has been doing.
indeed the main thing the FPU hardware gains you is the ability to do the basic steps of your approximation much faster.
however whether you have FPU hardware or not it still improve the cpu time required to get an acceptablly accurate soloution if you can simplify it mathematically before writing code to calculate a numerical appproximation of it.
Oh if the USA got really troublesome someone else WOULD take over the internet.
There are already alternative DNS roots that could be switched to pretty damn quickly and ip allocation is a long term issue it may make be a pita to have no ip allocation body for a while but it wouldn't destroy the existing network structure.
The only thing that gives the USA *ANY* control over the internet right now is that all major ISPs cooperate with it.
mostly i think you are though you may also be pushing some material into the scratch. But the truth is scratches are generally very shallow so its not really an issue to polish stuff to get rid of them.
my nokia 8210 allows both sim and phone memory for numbers. I use sim memory as it stays with the sim but the phone memory does have various advantages including higher capacity longer names and coming online instantly when you turn the phone on (sim memory seems to take a nontrivial time after switch on to become active).
hmm not sure about your more secure point. If the sysadmin of the resolver you use has it in for you i don't see how there is much you can do about it. If he doesn't i don't see how its relavent
btw one exception to the normal punctuation in quotes rules is technical language where it is important to clarify if the punctuation is part of the quote or not
e.g. you always write "http://www.hotmail.com/". not "http://www.hotmail.com/."
with current propulsion technology moving something to a new orbit is basically out of the question. It often takes as much or more or more delta-v than was needed to put it in orbit in the first place and there is a huge issue of diminishing returns on delta-v
interplanetery missions are very carefully planed to control the ammount of delta-v needed to get to the target planet(s).
if one state has a very strict do not call list is there anything to stop the telemarketers just calling into that state from outside without ever setting up buisness there?
a photograph is basically a recording of the light intensity in different directions from a point. if your photos are from different points they won't neatly stitch together as the perspective will be slightly different.
i use both tabs and windows, i have a 3 row windows taskbar that often fills to the point of having a scrollbar mainly with ff windows and some of those windows may well have thier tabbar full to the point where tabs dissapear behind the x (highly annoying behaviour that)
generally i use windows for different sites and tabs for different bits on the same site especially if the site is running slow or i wan't to do some mass editing on a wiki etc.
and what if something happens to your company or your company simply decide for some reason the service is no longer running? any remaining customers are screwed.
and do you let them get hold of the data your app creates in thier name or do they have to keep paying you just to preserve that data?
if i buy software and install it on my pc i can keep running it for as long as i can find hardware capable of running it even if your company dissapears.
phone companies have been doing the same basic thing for decades and are unlikely to stop doing it any time soon and there isn't generally any (legal and affordable) way of replacing the service you buy from them with something thats within your control.
If you wan't to buy music from the itunes music service and play it on a portable device without working around or cracking the drm and transcoding the music you have to buy an ipod.
If you wan't to sell music to ipod users online you either have to make it non DRM (some indy labels might do this but i doubt any of the big record companies would) or sell it through the itunes music service.
its this two fanged approach that is going to make the ipod and itunes music service very very tough to beat. I don't think this is a good thing from the point of view of either customers or the music industry.
remember usage isn't constant though and charges are usually by 95th percentile or capped bandwidth so you nearly always will have bandwidth during off hours that you are paying for but not using.
yes that can be a problem but shouldn't be too bad as long as you stick to formats that are either very simple or very well documented (e.g. i don't think the deflate algorithm will get lost any time soon for example).
and you can generally rip the raw text out of most word processor formats quite easilly without needing the app that created them. Its messy but you can get the raw information.
it looked like that died with the death of a culture not of an indiviudal or company. I'd imagine keeping stuff secret to a culture like that would be near impossible in modern easy travel society.
sure but provided you don't have all your users maxing out thier bandwidth at the same time i'd imagine the costs of buying the onward link for a community broadband project wouldn't be unaffordable.
afaict you can get T1 and its higher bandwidth relatives almost anywhere its just they are out of the price range of an individual user. Community broadband projects fix that.
also remember that restoration (at least in the digital sense, things done to an actual physical picture may be a different matter) takes away real information and replaces it with the restorers ideas. So really you should always store a losslessly compressed unrestored version.
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the explanation is rather burried in the comments but its not a surprising one to me. PDF is based on postscript and aims at preserving visual layout NOT any form of semantic information.
yes it is true are you really so ignorant of the windows world you didn't know something as basic as that or are you trolling?!
If you can still get licenses i'd think the thing to do in that case would be to stock up so you have some for new recruits even after they dissapear.
what are the licenseing terms you use it under? Is there a way you can effectively make your position regarding being allowed to use it secure for a long timer?
whilst what rutan achived is commendable calling it spaceflight is a bit of a stretch. Its a bit like comparing an object thrown in the air with an aircraft.
The only feasible way to stay out of the earths atnosphere is to go into orbit but orbit is far far harder to achive than the little stunts runtan has been doing.
indeed the main thing the FPU hardware gains you is the ability to do the basic steps of your approximation much faster.
however whether you have FPU hardware or not it still improve the cpu time required to get an acceptablly accurate soloution if you can simplify it mathematically before writing code to calculate a numerical appproximation of it.
Oh if the USA got really troublesome someone else WOULD take over the internet.
There are already alternative DNS roots that could be switched to pretty damn quickly and ip allocation is a long term issue it may make be a pita to have no ip allocation body for a while but it wouldn't destroy the existing network structure.
The only thing that gives the USA *ANY* control over the internet right now is that all major ISPs cooperate with it.
if my understanding of how skype works is correct i'd imagine it would be pretty trivial for them to mod the login server to mitm your calls.
mostly i think you are though you may also be pushing some material into the scratch. But the truth is scratches are generally very shallow so its not really an issue to polish stuff to get rid of them.
my nokia 8210 allows both sim and phone memory for numbers. I use sim memory as it stays with the sim but the phone memory does have various advantages including higher capacity longer names and coming online instantly when you turn the phone on (sim memory seems to take a nontrivial time after switch on to become active).
hmm not sure about your more secure point. If the sysadmin of the resolver you use has it in for you i don't see how there is much you can do about it. If he doesn't i don't see how its relavent
btw one exception to the normal punctuation in quotes rules is technical language where it is important to clarify if the punctuation is part of the quote or not
e.g. you always write "http://www.hotmail.com/". not "http://www.hotmail.com/."
does an $80k a year person really cost twice as much on costs like that as a $40k a year person and if so where do the big cost increases come from?
with current propulsion technology moving something to a new orbit is basically out of the question. It often takes as much or more or more delta-v than was needed to put it in orbit in the first place and there is a huge issue of diminishing returns on delta-v
interplanetery missions are very carefully planed to control the ammount of delta-v needed to get to the target planet(s).
if one state has a very strict do not call list is there anything to stop the telemarketers just calling into that state from outside without ever setting up buisness there?
a photograph is basically a recording of the light intensity in different directions from a point. if your photos are from different points they won't neatly stitch together as the perspective will be slightly different.
i use both tabs and windows, i have a 3 row windows taskbar that often fills to the point of having a scrollbar mainly with ff windows and some of those windows may well have thier tabbar full to the point where tabs dissapear behind the x (highly annoying behaviour that)
generally i use windows for different sites and tabs for different bits on the same site especially if the site is running slow or i wan't to do some mass editing on a wiki etc.
and what if something happens to your company or your company simply decide for some reason the service is no longer running? any remaining customers are screwed.
and do you let them get hold of the data your app creates in thier name or do they have to keep paying you just to preserve that data?
if i buy software and install it on my pc i can keep running it for as long as i can find hardware capable of running it even if your company dissapears.
phone companies have been doing the same basic thing for decades and are unlikely to stop doing it any time soon and there isn't generally any (legal and affordable) way of replacing the service you buy from them with something thats within your control.
and it seems the record cos don't like it.
If you wan't to buy music from the itunes music service and play it on a portable device without working around or cracking the drm and transcoding the music you have to buy an ipod.
If you wan't to sell music to ipod users online you either have to make it non DRM (some indy labels might do this but i doubt any of the big record companies would) or sell it through the itunes music service.
its this two fanged approach that is going to make the ipod and itunes music service very very tough to beat. I don't think this is a good thing from the point of view of either customers or the music industry.
remember usage isn't constant though and charges are usually by 95th percentile or capped bandwidth so you nearly always will have bandwidth during off hours that you are paying for but not using.
yes that can be a problem but shouldn't be too bad as long as you stick to formats that are either very simple or very well documented (e.g. i don't think the deflate algorithm will get lost any time soon for example).
and you can generally rip the raw text out of most word processor formats quite easilly without needing the app that created them. Its messy but you can get the raw information.
it looked like that died with the death of a culture not of an indiviudal or company. I'd imagine keeping stuff secret to a culture like that would be near impossible in modern easy travel society.
sure but provided you don't have all your users maxing out thier bandwidth at the same time i'd imagine the costs of buying the onward link for a community broadband project wouldn't be unaffordable.
afaict you can get T1 and its higher bandwidth relatives almost anywhere its just they are out of the price range of an individual user. Community broadband projects fix that.
iirc the fsf has said that they consider the GPL to be using copyright against itself and they would be fine with copyright dissapearing altogether.
ofc copyright is here to stay whether we like it or not so its all a bit irrelevent really.
also remember that restoration (at least in the digital sense, things done to an actual physical picture may be a different matter) takes away real information and replaces it with the restorers ideas. So really you should always store a losslessly compressed unrestored version.