Pretty much any more. Bash ANY tech company, no matter how bad that company is (my favorite bogeyman is Sony but I'm no MS fan either) and someone will mod it troll or flamebait. Lots of MS and Sony fans (and Apple and every other tech company) and employees consider any negative opinion of their employer, their income source a threat. Of course they're going to mod you down.
It doesn't matter if you get twenty upmods for every downmod and have great karma, except of course the annoyance of taking the time and effort to make a relevant post expressing your valid opinion, only to have it modded to invisibility and your efforts wasted.
Exactly what do you mean by "sample length?" If by it you mean that there are three samples in a 15kHz tone and hundreds in a 300Hz tone, then that is accurate. Your 300 Hz tone wil be more accurate than the sample of a 15kHz tone. But its is because of the number of samples collected per wavecrest.
Nyquist can be overly simplified to say that you need more than two samples to reproduce a wave.
can the human ear discern between hearing a square or sawtooth wave, compared to hearing their sinusoidal waveforms bandwidth limited to the audible frequency range.
That is exectly the right question, and the answer is a clear "yes". If you can hear a tone you can discern different wave shapes for that tone. It's the main reason people say that LPs sound "warmer" than CDs; it has to do with CD's aliasing distortion, which analog recordings don't have (even though there are other forms of distortion).
Raise the sample rate where there are enough samples to accurately render a 20kHz waveform of any shape and your digital sample will sound "warmer" than the LP while lacking the LP's inherent noise problems.
Nyquist doesn't apply to analog recordings because there are no samples per se, it is continuous. LPs had a fantastic frequency range. The way quadraphonic LPs worked was the rear channels were modulated with a 40kHz tone and added to the front channels, then subtracted on playback by phasing. That 40kHz tone that held the rear channels is twice as high as the best human ear can discern.
There seems to be an emphasis to make things pop more by upping the contrast.
Contrast perspective is one of the many tools artists have always used to bring 3D to a 2D surface. There are many forms of contrast. Color contrast, for example: cool colors recede, warm colors pop out.
Since it's a book I'll probably only read once, I also don't want the paperback cluttering my shelves. So instead of buying the ebook for half the cost of the paperback I bought neither, and simply haven't read the book (and won't, until the e-book version is at a reasonable price).
If it's a book I think I'll only read once, I'll check it out from the public library and read it for free. The library here in Springfield is a large three story building filled with books, with a selection of movies and CDs on the second floor. I could read free for the rest of my life and never read the same book twice.
I only buy books I've read and wanted to read again, or from authors I've enjoyed reading in the past and know the book will be good.
Of course, ebooks based on public domain materials really ought to be very inexpensive: extremely low production costs, no cost of materials, and no risk.
Ebooks based on public domain works are penned by authors and copyrighted. They cost the same to produce as any other new work.
You have to remember that art and literature are like science and technology, in that everything new is built on the old. That's one reason copyright lengths are too long. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights!
Public domain works themselves aren't "cheap", they're free, all available at Project Gutenberg. Printed public domain books are very inexpensive, I paid $5 for my hardcover copy of Huckleberry Finn. The ebook version costs $0.
That is correct, and the mods did well on your comment. Copyright violation is usually not plagairism, sometimes plagairism isn't copyright violation, but usually plagairism is also copyright violation.
Unfortunately, when your work is plagairized your only recourse is the copyright violation aspect. If it's one of the edge cases you mention where the plagairism isn't also copyright infringement, then unfortunately you have no recourse.
There are TWO "United States" in North America. There is the United States of America, and Los Estados Unidos de Mexico ("United States of Mexico" in English).
Me too. The bastard with his goatse and gnaa and other crap... I'd put him in my "foes" list except there seems to be no link to his account to foe him with.
That was bad. Bad rhyming, bad meter. Try this one.
Bye Bye, mister Raspberry Pi, Ain't as heavy as a Chevy but the warehouse was dry. those good old boys, they just want one more try, If I don't get one I think I will cry, If I don't get one I think I will cry.
And what they'll get is a high level of piracy of eBooks. Fucking idiots.
I read a year or two ago about a book publisher who commissioned a study to find out how much piracy was costing him. It takes a couple of weeks for a pirate book to hit the internet, so they watched that, and were amazed to discover that rather than a drop in sales when the pirate version came out, there was actually a sales SPIKE.
So not worrying about piracy is far from idiocy. Piracy sells books.
In a capitalist system, there is competetion. The different players want as many sales as possible at the highest price possible. What holds prices down is competetion. If I lower the price of my widgets to a buck less than yours, your sales are going to drop unlesss your widgets are deemed by customers to be superior enough that it warrants the extra buck, or you'll sell fewer and earn less money.
When you have collusion, you have no capitalism. That's why it's illegal.
Well they have their own nationality names anyways. Mexican, Canadian... Also it is the United States of America as part of our name
True. Mexico's name is actually "Los Estados Unidos de Mexico", which translates to "United States of Mexico." So calling us "the united states" is far more confusing than calling us "America".
I actually think that ebooks are more 'robust' than print... you can store them forever in essentially no space at all.
I can store my physical books forever. Once you get out of the dorm, shelves are pretty common and one usually has plenty of room for books. And most folks like displaying their books, you can't do that with an ebook.
You can read them on multiple devices.
I can read my books without any device of any kind, how is needing a device "more robust?"
You can bend, fold, mutilate and staple.
No you can't, you can only do that with physical books. Also you can tear off the cover and throw it in a bonfire if the writing's so shitty you feel like you wasted your money. You can't use an ebook for fireplace kindling, or wipe your ass with the pages (Someone gave me a book by Chuck Colson, I think I WILL use it as toilet paper).
It's not the cost of the games, but cost of the hardware. That's one reason I got out of the gaming scene -- to play a new game you had to have the latest, greatest, fastest, most expensive hardware.
Sweeny and company need to get a clue. I'm a nerd, but I'm not Steve Wozniac. I have bills to pay and much better things to do with my time and money than to spend half a C-note on hardware, take the time to install the hardware, just to play a $50 game I might not even enjoy that much.
I mean, its a GAME. I don't care that every hair on Duke Nukem's head is perfectly rendered. I just want it to be FUN.
Metro (Not metrosexual. You should be modded troll just for that)
Why? Yes, it's disparaging, but only to Microsoft and heterosexual yuppie hipsters who shave their chests and pluck their eyebrows. As I like neither, I see nothing whatever trollish about it. Who is he trolling? Being a meterosexual is pretty damned un-nerdlike. At GQ it might be a troll, but not here.
And it fits. Microsoft UIs have become more and more like the hetero guy who shaves his chest and plucks his eyebrows.
Oh, BTW I've discovered that lately if you accuse someone of trolling, you're the one likely to be modded "troll". It won't bother me with my karma, but unless nine in twenty of your posts get modded up you may want to be careful of your accusations.
The new xbox dashboard, xbox.com, microsoft.com, Zune desktop software are all Microsoft products that use the Metro design that are not meant for touch screens. In particular, the Zune software is an example of a great metro app
Which division of MS do you work for? Hint: an insult to the faceless corporation you work for is neither a troll nor flamebait.
A password is not direct evidence. It's like a lock on the door. If the cops show up with a proper search warrant, you are obligated to unlock the door.
But if he has no warrant you are under no obligation to open that door, and without a warrant, have no obligation to disclose a password. If the following happens: "Open up! Police!" "Do you have a warrant?" "I don't need a goddamned warrant. Now open the goddamned door or I'll shoot you through it."
You would have a multimillion dollar civil rights case against the city.
The cop that bullied the little girl into giving up her password had no warrant and should be slapped down hard. I hope after the lawsuit that gestapo cop gets his walking papers.
Given a choice between a physical book and an ebook at the same price, in most cases I will buy the ebook, because that is the format I prefer.
Not me, I try to avoid being stolen from.
With a physical book they have the cost of materials, printing costs, warehousing costs, shipping costs, retail space costs. An ebook has none of those costs, to charge the same price for something physical that costs money to get into your hands as something that is essentially free once they've paid the editing, proofreading, and other pre-production costs is nothing short of highway robbery.
And as another poster said, you own a physical book. You don't own an ebook.
Were it not for collusion, the competetion would ensure that ebook prices were far loawer than the price of a physical book.
I think they should give the ebooks away when you buy a copy of the physical book. I mean, a CD might add a nickle to the cost of the physical book. A code on the paper book's index page could lead to a download of the ebook and wouldn't cost them a penny.
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Pretty much any more. Bash ANY tech company, no matter how bad that company is (my favorite bogeyman is Sony but I'm no MS fan either) and someone will mod it troll or flamebait. Lots of MS and Sony fans (and Apple and every other tech company) and employees consider any negative opinion of their employer, their income source a threat. Of course they're going to mod you down.
It doesn't matter if you get twenty upmods for every downmod and have great karma, except of course the annoyance of taking the time and effort to make a relevant post expressing your valid opinion, only to have it modded to invisibility and your efforts wasted.
No, only since 1997. Unless, of course, you're younger than slashdot in which case it is forever.
I wonder how many at slashdot are younger than the site? (Did I just make you feel old?)
Sample _length_, not sample rate.
Exactly what do you mean by "sample length?" If by it you mean that there are three samples in a 15kHz tone and hundreds in a 300Hz tone, then that is accurate. Your 300 Hz tone wil be more accurate than the sample of a 15kHz tone. But its is because of the number of samples collected per wavecrest.
Nyquist can be overly simplified to say that you need more than two samples to reproduce a wave.
can the human ear discern between hearing a square or sawtooth wave, compared to hearing their sinusoidal waveforms bandwidth limited to the audible frequency range.
That is exectly the right question, and the answer is a clear "yes". If you can hear a tone you can discern different wave shapes for that tone. It's the main reason people say that LPs sound "warmer" than CDs; it has to do with CD's aliasing distortion, which analog recordings don't have (even though there are other forms of distortion).
Raise the sample rate where there are enough samples to accurately render a 20kHz waveform of any shape and your digital sample will sound "warmer" than the LP while lacking the LP's inherent noise problems.
Nyquist doesn't apply to analog recordings because there are no samples per se, it is continuous. LPs had a fantastic frequency range. The way quadraphonic LPs worked was the rear channels were modulated with a 40kHz tone and added to the front channels, then subtracted on playback by phasing. That 40kHz tone that held the rear channels is twice as high as the best human ear can discern.
Brain fart slang fail. I meant G, not C. My bad.
There seems to be an emphasis to make things pop more by upping the contrast.
Contrast perspective is one of the many tools artists have always used to bring 3D to a 2D surface. There are many forms of contrast. Color contrast, for example: cool colors recede, warm colors pop out.
Wow, what an unabashed jerk you are.
I? You savage the rocket man by acting like a twelve year old punk and call me a jerk? Congrats, you get the hypocrite of the week award.
Yours, of course.
Since it's a book I'll probably only read once, I also don't want the paperback cluttering my shelves. So instead of buying the ebook for half the cost of the paperback I bought neither, and simply haven't read the book (and won't, until the e-book version is at a reasonable price).
If it's a book I think I'll only read once, I'll check it out from the public library and read it for free. The library here in Springfield is a large three story building filled with books, with a selection of movies and CDs on the second floor. I could read free for the rest of my life and never read the same book twice.
I only buy books I've read and wanted to read again, or from authors I've enjoyed reading in the past and know the book will be good.
Of course, ebooks based on public domain materials really ought to be very inexpensive: extremely low production costs, no cost of materials, and no risk.
Ebooks based on public domain works are penned by authors and copyrighted. They cost the same to produce as any other new work.
You have to remember that art and literature are like science and technology, in that everything new is built on the old. That's one reason copyright lengths are too long. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted as long as copyrights!
Public domain works themselves aren't "cheap", they're free, all available at Project Gutenberg. Printed public domain books are very inexpensive, I paid $5 for my hardcover copy of Huckleberry Finn. The ebook version costs $0.
That is correct, and the mods did well on your comment. Copyright violation is usually not plagairism, sometimes plagairism isn't copyright violation, but usually plagairism is also copyright violation.
Unfortunately, when your work is plagairized your only recourse is the copyright violation aspect. If it's one of the edge cases you mention where the plagairism isn't also copyright infringement, then unfortunately you have no recourse.
People value what they can measure.
People also value things we can't measure. Happiness, satisfaction, fun, love, laughter... you can't measure those.
Perhaps what you meant was people who value money above all else value only what they can measure. That would indeed be accurate.
There are TWO "United States" in North America. There is the United States of America, and Los Estados Unidos de Mexico ("United States of Mexico" in English).
I hate Anonymous Coward
Me too. The bastard with his goatse and gnaa and other crap... I'd put him in my "foes" list except there seems to be no link to his account to foe him with.
That was bad. Bad rhyming, bad meter. Try this one.
Bye Bye, mister Raspberry Pi,
Ain't as heavy as a Chevy
but the warehouse was dry.
those good old boys, they just want one more try,
If I don't get one I think I will cry,
If I don't get one I think I will cry.
Names are supposed to be for humans
You've never had a pet?
And what they'll get is a high level of piracy of eBooks. Fucking idiots.
I read a year or two ago about a book publisher who commissioned a study to find out how much piracy was costing him. It takes a couple of weeks for a pirate book to hit the internet, so they watched that, and were amazed to discover that rather than a drop in sales when the pirate version came out, there was actually a sales SPIKE.
So not worrying about piracy is far from idiocy. Piracy sells books.
RX is recieve, TX is transmit.
Instead we have a capitalist system
In a capitalist system, there is competetion. The different players want as many sales as possible at the highest price possible. What holds prices down is competetion. If I lower the price of my widgets to a buck less than yours, your sales are going to drop unlesss your widgets are deemed by customers to be superior enough that it warrants the extra buck, or you'll sell fewer and earn less money.
When you have collusion, you have no capitalism. That's why it's illegal.
Name them after Linux distro's What? Almost infinite to what?
>syntax error, compiler halted
Well they have their own nationality names anyways. Mexican, Canadian... Also it is the United States of America as part of our name
True. Mexico's name is actually "Los Estados Unidos de Mexico", which translates to "United States of Mexico." So calling us "the united states" is far more confusing than calling us "America".
I actually think that ebooks are more 'robust' than print... you can store them forever in essentially no space at all.
I can store my physical books forever. Once you get out of the dorm, shelves are pretty common and one usually has plenty of room for books. And most folks like displaying their books, you can't do that with an ebook.
You can read them on multiple devices.
I can read my books without any device of any kind, how is needing a device "more robust?"
You can bend, fold, mutilate and staple.
No you can't, you can only do that with physical books. Also you can tear off the cover and throw it in a bonfire if the writing's so shitty you feel like you wasted your money. You can't use an ebook for fireplace kindling, or wipe your ass with the pages (Someone gave me a book by Chuck Colson, I think I WILL use it as toilet paper).
It's not the cost of the games, but cost of the hardware. That's one reason I got out of the gaming scene -- to play a new game you had to have the latest, greatest, fastest, most expensive hardware.
Sweeny and company need to get a clue. I'm a nerd, but I'm not Steve Wozniac. I have bills to pay and much better things to do with my time and money than to spend half a C-note on hardware, take the time to install the hardware, just to play a $50 game I might not even enjoy that much.
I mean, its a GAME. I don't care that every hair on Duke Nukem's head is perfectly rendered. I just want it to be FUN.
Metro (Not metrosexual. You should be modded troll just for that)
Why? Yes, it's disparaging, but only to Microsoft and heterosexual yuppie hipsters who shave their chests and pluck their eyebrows. As I like neither, I see nothing whatever trollish about it. Who is he trolling? Being a meterosexual is pretty damned un-nerdlike. At GQ it might be a troll, but not here.
And it fits. Microsoft UIs have become more and more like the hetero guy who shaves his chest and plucks his eyebrows.
Oh, BTW I've discovered that lately if you accuse someone of trolling, you're the one likely to be modded "troll". It won't bother me with my karma, but unless nine in twenty of your posts get modded up you may want to be careful of your accusations.
The new xbox dashboard, xbox.com, microsoft.com, Zune desktop software are all Microsoft products that use the Metro design that are not meant for touch screens. In particular, the Zune software is an example of a great metro app
Which division of MS do you work for? Hint: an insult to the faceless corporation you work for is neither a troll nor flamebait.
A password is not direct evidence. It's like a lock on the door. If the cops show up with a proper search warrant, you are obligated to unlock the door.
But if he has no warrant you are under no obligation to open that door, and without a warrant, have no obligation to disclose a password. If the following happens:
"Open up! Police!"
"Do you have a warrant?"
"I don't need a goddamned warrant. Now open the goddamned door or I'll shoot you through it."
You would have a multimillion dollar civil rights case against the city.
The cop that bullied the little girl into giving up her password had no warrant and should be slapped down hard. I hope after the lawsuit that gestapo cop gets his walking papers.
Given a choice between a physical book and an ebook at the same price, in most cases I will buy the ebook, because that is the format I prefer.
Not me, I try to avoid being stolen from.
With a physical book they have the cost of materials, printing costs, warehousing costs, shipping costs, retail space costs. An ebook has none of those costs, to charge the same price for something physical that costs money to get into your hands as something that is essentially free once they've paid the editing, proofreading, and other pre-production costs is nothing short of highway robbery.
And as another poster said, you own a physical book. You don't own an ebook.
Were it not for collusion, the competetion would ensure that ebook prices were far loawer than the price of a physical book.
I think they should give the ebooks away when you buy a copy of the physical book. I mean, a CD might add a nickle to the cost of the physical book. A code on the paper book's index page could lead to a download of the ebook and wouldn't cost them a penny.