Normally the people who upload/post leaks aren't afraid of a little lawsuit action. It's the jerk-offs that don't seed after they've downloaded files that fear the RIAA. Let them be gone I say.
I for one am happy with apples gain in sales. it shows that if a satisfactory alternative for music downloads is available customers will pay. more importantly though this "cherry picking" shows the record labels that consumers are tired of the same market drivel and if you give us good content that we like we'll pay.
i say "one future of music distribution" because i am also leaning towards this idea
i still have mine. sound blaster interface was amazing, but it stop being supported with windows xp i believe. 6GB of pure heaven. i think i must have payed like 200 CDN for it.
i wasn't aware BeOS used a microkernal. i wonder if this gives any merit to tanenbaum's views. with everyone and his grandma extoling the virtues of the BeOS this diffinetly makes me want to look closer at minix again.
sounds like alot to be handling and maintaing. you have one trunk provider or servreal? because with a little searching you can find one decent trunk provider that will give you decent prices for your particular setup. best of luck.
i'm a little confused as to what you want. you want better call quality or you want skype to use an open signalling protocol?
i'm not really sure why it was modded up us interesting but perhaps i'm missing something.
i'm currently implementing my own voip
service - including writing the RTP and SIP libraries for my voip client - and i can tell you voice quality and signalling are mutally exclusive. the former is contigent on the number of channels * sample rate * resolution (how many bits you use to encode), this is then passed to the codec that will compress it for transmission over the network. some codecs (won't go into them here) are good basically some leave a bit to be desired. skype uses a proprietary codec and enables the wide band mode in said codec for superior call quality.
as far as sip is concerned its just a signallying protocol that yes, can be used in a variety of media applications, but whether they use sip or aix or h.225.0 or even an in house one, it won't make much difference. Again, audio quality is contigent on many factors and sometimes due to the network is out of the provider's hands. Its like bringing your car to the mecanic and complaining about the bumpy roads. what you seem to be complaining about is that you want skype to play nice and interoperate with other voip clients. which they don't have to do. if you as a client are unhappy with this you have the ultimate power - don't use it. I for one will aim for interoperability with my voip service, but as with any business they don't have to play nice - its their product.
please let me know if it was missing something in what you were saying so i can correct myself or understand better.
This article is retarded. facebook works because it already caters to young people who spend all their time online anyway and an excellent way to keep in touch with friends.
it works for older people because its an excellent way to get in touch with old classmates and it works for business because its a already established market XOR demographics to advertise.
this article sounds like its written who doesn`t know ish about online communities or the youth or today and the internet`s impact on it, and it being on slashdot just sounds like an excuse for geeks to talk about something cool when probably the majority on here aren`t on it.
mod me down, i`m not here to make ``friends`` on slashdot - ANOTHER ONLINE COMMUNITY!
i'm not sure if this is the same concept. but you can see a slight effect of this with water in a curved wine glass let's say. you'll notice that the shape of the glass can determine how near or far you can see.
its actually quite interesting and i remember noticing this and thinking i'd get back to it. but once again, there is nothing new under the sun and we see man simply discovering nature and all her mysteries independant of geography, race or creed. i'm more of an amateur mathematician and i've never delved into optics but it is fascinating.
Plus it's just about the funniest movie in history, and (most) nerds like funny stuff.
as opposed to...
What do Magic The Gathering articles and sci-fi book reviews have to do with tech either? Obviously this goes under that glorious tent known as "Nerd Culture". And yes, nerds can rap to, just look at the Beastie Boys.
ahhh...i guess i should have pointed out. i am a geek. not a nerd. I'm sure everyone here knows the difference. love the intellectual side of the culture. not really in the loner, loser and dungeons and dragons side. basically i get laid. regularly;).
seriously though, i can see what the demographics of/. is by the many replies to my comment-even getting modded down offtopic??? - I will sacrifice something...to appease the nerd gods.
mod me down. but what the hell does this have to do with technology?! why is it even on/. yeah some nerds on here like rock but others like ambient and rap and hell maybe one or two even likes cher. so cmdrtaco...let's try not to make our preference show. keep it nerdy!
you know its interesting and says alot - that in all these discussions about patent laws we haven't seen anyone come on and say: IAPL. (I'm a patent lawyer) or i work for the USPTO. correct me if i'm wrong but... hmm...
anonymous coward eh? lol. dude i live in quebec in montreal specifically. just cause quebecers have their own culture doesn't equate to them not sharing the same culture as the US and English Canada. Alberta has its own culture too so do the natives....see where your argument falls apart?
as for beating the english stuff on the charts? what are you smoking? what charts specifically are you talking about? locally yes, internationally or even provincially or nationally. no. My statement still stands. that paragraph in the article was bogus.
I guess i must be more of a canadian patriot than i thought because i don't think that link was even mildly funny. As a red-blooded canadian i can tell you many people up here feel the best thing about the states are their movies. An empirical q & a will show you we don't approve of their politics nor do we want to become another "state"
For many years, the U.S. and Canada have had a strong relationship with both countries serving as each others largest trade partner. The two countries also share, except for the Province of Québec, a similar culture with the same genres of music, movies, television, and, from the U.S. to Canada,...
this quote is pretty retarded too, considering that quebec isn't separate from canada. I'd love to know how the commiter for this piece got this information. especially considering this recent news
This guy is the type of person that gives wikipedia a bad name.
Canada just doesn't have its head up its ass and is also not afraid of the united states. Unlike ass kissers like blair and whoever else in the world that bob likes an idiot when the u.s comes to town. Thats why even though we do deliver justice to terroists and other crimminals when its due, we still try to follow the law
At least submitter noted that canada was doing a good job.
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I love python but god knows its the whore of programming languages.
i think dice.com would probably agree.
actually the concept of quantity was discovered, and its applications in the various fields were invented. this really isn't that hard.
i say "one future of music distribution" because i am also leaning towards this idea
i still have mine. sound blaster interface was amazing, but it stop being supported with windows xp i believe. 6GB of pure heaven. i think i must have payed like 200 CDN for it.
so all the actors would have to lay down to get scanned i think.
Damnnnnnnn...that is cold.
so what, now i have to code in java to contribute anything to the "G-phone"?
obviously this is slow news day. can we mark a whole thread useless? geez!
amen to the op. "haters!" to the japanese news paper. and "hurry up already" to my back ordered wii.
sounds like alot to be handling and maintaing. you have one trunk provider or servreal? because with a little searching you can find one decent trunk provider that will give you decent prices for your particular setup. best of luck.
i'm currently implementing my own voip service - including writing the RTP and SIP libraries for my voip client - and i can tell you voice quality and signalling are mutally exclusive. the former is contigent on the number of channels * sample rate * resolution (how many bits you use to encode), this is then passed to the codec that will compress it for transmission over the network. some codecs (won't go into them here) are good basically some leave a bit to be desired. skype uses a proprietary codec and enables the wide band mode in said codec for superior call quality.
as far as sip is concerned its just a signallying protocol that yes, can be used in a variety of media applications, but whether they use sip or aix or h.225.0 or even an in house one, it won't make much difference. Again, audio quality is contigent on many factors and sometimes due to the network is out of the provider's hands. Its like bringing your car to the mecanic and complaining about the bumpy roads. what you seem to be complaining about is that you want skype to play nice and interoperate with other voip clients. which they don't have to do. if you as a client are unhappy with this you have the ultimate power - don't use it. I for one will aim for interoperability with my voip service, but as with any business they don't have to play nice - its their product.
please let me know if it was missing something in what you were saying so i can correct myself or understand better.
i downloaded the client on friday and i've put two others onto doing the same....seriously i did.
it works for older people because its an excellent way to get in touch with old classmates and it works for business because its a already established market XOR demographics to advertise.
this article sounds like its written who doesn`t know ish about online communities or the youth or today and the internet`s impact on it, and it being on slashdot just sounds like an excuse for geeks to talk about something cool when probably the majority on here aren`t on it.
mod me down, i`m not here to make ``friends`` on slashdot - ANOTHER ONLINE COMMUNITY!
its actually quite interesting and i remember noticing this and thinking i'd get back to it. but once again, there is nothing new under the sun and we see man simply discovering nature and all her mysteries independant of geography, race or creed. i'm more of an amateur mathematician and i've never delved into optics but it is fascinating.
seriously though, i can see what the demographics of /. is by the many replies to my comment-even getting modded down offtopic??? - I will sacrifice something...to appease the nerd gods.
what does it matter my age. it still has nothing to do with technology. if it was hackers or something i could understand. but spinal tap??!!
mod me down. but what the hell does this have to do with technology?! why is it even on /. yeah some nerds on here like rock but others like ambient and rap and hell maybe one or two even likes cher. so cmdrtaco...let's try not to make our preference show. keep it nerdy!
not trolling here but...i was just thinking. what if matematicians could patent their work..
you know its interesting and says alot - that in all these discussions about patent laws we haven't seen anyone come on and say: IAPL. (I'm a patent lawyer) or i work for the USPTO. correct me if i'm wrong but... hmm...
as for beating the english stuff on the charts? what are you smoking? what charts specifically are you talking about? locally yes, internationally or even provincially or nationally. no. My statement still stands. that paragraph in the article was bogus.
This guy is the type of person that gives wikipedia a bad name.
Canada just doesn't have its head up its ass and is also not afraid of the united states. Unlike ass kissers like blair and whoever else in the world that bob likes an idiot when the u.s comes to town. Thats why even though we do deliver justice to terroists and other crimminals when its due, we still try to follow the law At least submitter noted that canada was doing a good job.