You mean you consider a lumbering 4000 lbs giant with an agricultural, long-stroke V8 a better car than a light and nimble one which, while possibly having slightly less HP, would trash your truck in any meaningful performance comparison?
This may be true in some far away parts of the world, but in most places the situation is like this:
The photographer can do many things with the picture: print it, display it in a gallery and charge admission. He can even print it and sell the prints for money.
What he cannot do without a model release in most parts of the world is sell it to IBM to use in their new ad campaign.
The person in the picture is only allowed to hang the picture on his wall, assuming he or she has bought a print from the photographer.
Grade "A" operating systems can cost $100-1000M to develop. The majority of that figure is salaries for the people involved: Averages might be 10-1000 programmers, 10-100 artists and 30-100 support people, all over 18-48 months, plus overhead.
[...]
Oh wait, there's Linux, FreeBSD, etc, etc...
I've got no idea why there are no Great Open Source Games With Spark, but I bet money's got nothing to do with it.
Copyright law was originally created to ensure a steady flow of new art. "Let's give the artist the means to earn a living, and he might go on making art", it was reasoned.
Today things are different: Many "artists" are little more than wage slaves (programmers and other engineers), others are tied hand and feet to their masters, the record companies. Who make the money? Rarely if ever it is the artist who gets to be rich.
Enter the internet with it's 0-day warez sites, Napster, Freedom, etc. Enter the open source movement (or free software, or whatever you want to call it).
The copying-stuff-is-theft concept doesn't seem to fly with many of Napster's users, even if the cops and the big companies still believe in it, they seem to be quite unsuccessful in stopping warez sites.
Maybe, if all these trends continue, our kids will live in a world with no copyrights. Many things will have to change. Who knows? Maybe every bar will have a live band in it again, maybe Windows will be GPL'ed:-)
I have no problem with what the author set out to prove. My problem is with his method. Comparing sonograms is not a good way to evaluate a psycho-acoustic model. The only proper way to evaluate one is to listen to it.
That one of the sonograms seems to be closer to the original visually says nothing about how it will sound.
I'm not sure what you mean by "boil it down to pure psycho-acoustics". Psycho-acoustics is what MP3 is about. Trying to boil MP3 down to anything else is pointless.
If you want your MP3 music to come out as closely to the original in a sonogram as is possible, you have not understood what MP3 is about. I think one would like to get an MP3 file that sounds the closest to the original. Visuals be damned.
MP3 is about selectively discarding information from the audiostream. The purpose is not to create an output waveform which is as close as possible to the input. This is what the whole business with the psycho-acoustic model is about.
Giving control over such an important part of net infrastructure to any one person? A bastard-treehugging-hippy-communist at that?!
ICANN sucks, but it at least tries to appear to be a democratic organisation, which can only be a step in the right direction.
The whole DNS/domain/.com system is a mess. The best thing would be to scrap.com/net/org, and make them all re-register under.us.
Chances of this happening are as near to zero as makes no odds, so we're stuck with it. Giving the whole thing to RMS and his hippies isn't going to solve anything.
Actually, the reason Europe wants it's own GPS network is because of the Selective Availability.
I hope that this decision is not going to stop those plans, as the USA will undoubtedly turn SA back on whenever someone in the white house has a bad dream.
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They didn't agree, the original drawings were in French and English, measurements in centimeters and inches. :)
Woah!
/. goes retro!
56k ??
Woah!
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Sanity on
How is this possible? Quick! Mod it down!
Before someone else starts thinking too!
Because you can! Why else?!
Right on!
Cages are for groceries and old women...
You mean you consider a lumbering 4000 lbs giant with an agricultural, long-stroke V8 a better car than a light and nimble one which, while possibly having slightly less HP, would trash your truck in any meaningful performance comparison?
Probably because it's written by an American. We all know Americans are a bit confused about units...
Why the West doesn't stop using this childish semi-phonetic alphabet and start using proper writing is something that's beyond me.
Do they want to appear illiterate or something?
You don't read comp.risks often, do you?
If you ask the photographer nicely I'm sure he'll give you a quote for the exclusive distribution rights of one of his photographs.
If you don't want to pay that, the yes, you'll be stuck with paying for each print.
Your choice.
This may be true in some far away parts of the world, but in most places the situation is like this:
The photographer can do many things with the picture: print it, display it in a gallery and charge admission. He can even print it and sell the prints for money.
What he cannot do without a model release in most parts of the world is sell it to IBM to use in their new ad campaign.
The person in the picture is only allowed to hang the picture on his wall, assuming he or she has bought a print from the photographer.
Does that make the Ferrari more primitive than a bicycle?
Grade "A" operating systems can cost $100-1000M to develop. The majority of that figure is salaries for the people involved: Averages might be 10-1000 programmers, 10-100 artists and 30-100 support people, all over 18-48 months, plus overhead.
[...]
Oh wait, there's Linux, FreeBSD, etc, etc...
I've got no idea why there are no Great Open Source Games With Spark, but I bet money's got nothing to do with it.
Anyone else who thinks that "Pax Americana" is a contradiction in terms?
Poor Intel! my heart bleeds! Something must be done to protect our beloved Intel from these trolls!!!
Can't we charge them under the DMCA or something?
Copyright law was originally created to ensure a steady flow of new art. "Let's give the artist the means to earn a living, and he might go on making art", it was reasoned.
:-)
Today things are different: Many "artists" are little more than wage slaves (programmers and other engineers), others are tied hand and feet to their masters, the record companies. Who make the money? Rarely if ever it is the artist who gets to be rich.
Enter the internet with it's 0-day warez sites, Napster, Freedom, etc. Enter the open source movement (or free software, or whatever you want to call it).
The copying-stuff-is-theft concept doesn't seem to fly with many of Napster's users, even if the cops and the big companies still believe in it, they seem to be quite unsuccessful in stopping warez sites.
Maybe, if all these trends continue, our kids will live in a world with no copyrights. Many things will have to change. Who knows? Maybe every bar will have a live band in it again, maybe Windows will be GPL'ed
That one of the sonograms seems to be closer to the original visually says nothing about how it will sound.
If you want your MP3 music to come out as closely to the original in a sonogram as is possible, you have not understood what MP3 is about. I think one would like to get an MP3 file that sounds the closest to the original. Visuals be damned.
MP3 is about selectively discarding information from the audiostream. The purpose is not to create an output waveform which is as close as possible to the input. This is what the whole business with the psycho-acoustic model is about.
I think Monty needs to go out more often and get some fresh air. Sit in the sun a bit, get some colour. Maybe even go to the movies or something.
Looks like he's been coding for way too long.
Giving control over such an important part of net infrastructure to any one person? A bastard-treehugging-hippy-communist at that?!
.com/net/org, and make them all re-register under .us.
ICANN sucks, but it at least tries to appear to be a democratic organisation, which can only be a step in the right direction.
The whole DNS/domain/.com system is a mess. The best thing would be to scrap
Chances of this happening are as near to zero as makes no odds, so we're stuck with it. Giving the whole thing to RMS and his hippies isn't going to solve anything.
A better town for any kind of freedom & fun lovin' geek there is not!
So, how much traffic and hits/sec does this setup do?
Actually, the reason Europe wants it's own GPS network is because of the Selective Availability.
I hope that this decision is not going to stop those plans, as the USA will undoubtedly turn SA back on whenever someone in the white house has a bad dream.
Do they have a rackmount version of this?
Think about it: No more rows and rows of racks. Just one with a few hundred of these...