how intuitive will it be for an alien listener, that this broadcast will be audio/video in PAL, SECAM or NTSC coding?
Actually if they can't figure out that whole PAL, SECAM or NTSC thing, they'll still get the image in black and white. The black and white part of analog video is built in a pretty obvious manner actually. Anyways I think the most important is that they get a signal from us, so they know that we're here, then it doesn't really matter whether they see us naked or not.
Remove hard drive first, nuke it yourself. Only way to be sure.
Only way to make sure that nobody could recover your porn or find out that your mail account's password is "password" even by opening your hard drive and looking for data with a gauss-meter or something of this kind?
Unless you got state secrets on your hard drive and that somebody out there might know it, writing a bunch of 0's once on your hard drive will keep anything you could have on your hard drive safe.
But maybe is that a technique of security through obscurity to have few pertinent classified documents buried in the middle of lots of uninteresting classified documents;-)
That's right, that's the reason why keeping photographs of the Area 51 secret for so long (particularly the ones taken by Skylab 1) was ridiculous, considered that the russians had already seen it for a long time.
He believes we will see the first computers as smart as people by 2015
In other news, cult followers believe that Armageddon is for 2012 and christians believe Jesus Christ will come back anytime soon.
I for one think that people who believe in the rise of Strong AI and in the technological singularity form a technology-themed cult, the reason for that is that you have no reason to believe that Strong AI will come anytime soon, since we're far from anything even remotely close to that. It's all more like wishful thinking I guess..
Every dollar spent fighting it, is a dollar wasted.
Agreed. There's no way some DRM system or anything else could make people who don't want to pay for music pay for music. The music business pretty much like a mall in which they'd let you go away without paying, lots of people would still pay for what they would buy, and some wouldn't. And in that precise situation there's nothing they can do to make the people who don't want to pay pay.
If you think you can make such people pay by using such things as DRM, you must think war on drug can be easily won.
I can only speak for myself, but I listen to more stuff from the year 1990 than from the whole of the 2000's. For the "old" music I remember the good stuff and forget the crap, and as for the music of today, I discard everything. So to me, music did change, but that's just me tho..
I totally agree with you when you say that true artists care more about making music and eventually having it heard and getting feedback than getting rich and ultra famous. Actually that whole P2P thing is a good greed detector.
However, I don't agree with you when you say that they shouldn't be called artists, musicians or actors. To me, there are two kinds of titles, the ones anyone can have, and the ones that are deserved. In the titles anyone can have, you have : musicians (you only need to hit some random keys on a piano to call yourself that), judoka (you only need go to a judo lesson once to be one and have your white belt), artist, criminal etc. In the ones you need to deserve : doctor, engineer, teacher, O.G., etc...
My point is that it's not hard to have one of the titles anyone can have, but it's not given to anyone to be good at it or successful at it, as anyone can't claim to be a doctor or an O.G., because that kind of title means you have achieved something. All of this to say that as bad of an artist/rapper/actor can be, it's still an artist/rapper/actor, it just may be an aweful one.
hahaha, yeah, my parents have never had anything but Citroëns (right now we have a Saxo and a C3). I like Peugeots too tho, although Citroën and Peugeot are pretty much clone companies now.
Or maybe so many died because they didn't wait until 1942 to fight, or maybe because they got actually invaded.
Btw according to the wikipedia link someone else posted in a reply to you, about twice more american soldiers died from that war than french, but they also fought in the Pacific..
Oh well, you're probably the type of american (what else could you be?) who thinks that latin americans speak latin and who thinks there are cheerleaders in french schools.
Do you know how many French soldiers died fighting the Nazi invasion? Do you know anything about the Free French Forces or the French Resistance? It is amazing how many Americans have this unhistorical belief that the French just gave up and accepted the Nazis - they fought just as hard as every other nation and lost hundreds of thousands of people in combat. More French soldiers died battling the Nazis than US soldiers.
(Disclaimer : I'm french and this is a sarcasm) No! The french just gave up in June 1940 because Pétain said so and that proves how cowardly they are. A chance that we the american were there to save them and win the war for them, and please don't tell me about how Great Britain and Russia helped with it because everybody knows that the american troops are the sole responsible for the victory over the forces of evil.
And anyways you just have to look at the military history of France to see how cowardly they are by nature, their country was founded by cowardly barbarians and has always been lead by the worst cowards ever, such as Napoleon, no, really, these smelly frog eaters should be grateful that we stopped selling weapons to the germans and entered the war to save their sissy asses.
This time let's learn from Slashdot's history and let's avoid arguing about the same things over again when it comes to addictions.
Maybe we are addicted to the Internet, but it doesn't matter because it's not because we are addicted that it's nocive (example : sex). Also, when people think we are too much into something, they say we're addicted. If we went to the hypothetical barefoot-hippie-land we'd be told that we're addicted to our shoes.
Now thank me for avoiding you to argue about this over again and give me my damn Insightful mod points.
So this company will not be worth anything in a year.
This comment sounds like these false predictions from the past that you read and laugh at for how far from the truth they were. YouTube is about as likely to die as Apple.
My two cents : record companies will rather partner with YouTube to make money out of it than sue it (isn't it what Warner Music has been doing already?). Why kill the golden egg hen?
The problem with families in which many members reach 100, is that they are more likely to die from heart diseases in their 40's. As I read recently in Science & Vie, in nature, a shorter lifespan (due to genes) means a stronger youth.
I'd rather live to 80 than live to 105 and be more likely to die of a heart disease in my 40's.
My apologies. I until now ignored the non-mathematical aspects of this and well, only paid attention to the mathematical ones.
I started a discussion here in comp.dsp if you're interested, and from the posts in this topic it seems that it has to do with some kind of distortion in the air or in our ears (that's how I understand it).
This being said, I don't think that in your example you will end up with a pure 2 kHz sine, and anyways, that doesn't explain a need for sampling frequencies higher than 44.1 kHz, since the effect we are talking about could be "included" one way or another in your final digital signal.
From your post I still really don't see the benefit of having a Nyquist frequency higher than the highest frequency you can hear, harmonics or not harmonics, you need to explain that. And I don't remember MP3 compression doing anything about harmonics, but that might be my selective memory playing tricks.
So.. the CD is dying? If it's possible that in the future artists stop using CD's and that they use analog medias or digital means (ones using lossless compressions, as they now do most of the time), then that would mean that for a while we couldn't provide ourselves an exact PCM copy of the original tracks, in other words there wouldn't be anymore the one and only bit-wise original track.
It would feel like a regression to me, although all I listen to now is MP3's.
If there are two frequences present that have a beat frequency (say 21Khz and 23 Khz), then an audible beat frequency of 2 khz
will be produced
Totally wrong, what will happen is that the sound *envelope* will have a 2 kHz shape, but it won't *create* any lower frequency, in other words nothing audible will magically appear. It pisses me off when I hear bullshit like that from people who sound like they know what they are talking about.
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how intuitive will it be for an alien listener, that this broadcast will be audio/video in PAL, SECAM or NTSC coding?
Actually if they can't figure out that whole PAL, SECAM or NTSC thing, they'll still get the image in black and white. The black and white part of analog video is built in a pretty obvious manner actually. Anyways I think the most important is that they get a signal from us, so they know that we're here, then it doesn't really matter whether they see us naked or not.
Tell me you can't sell that.
Actually you could sell the PSU alone for that price. I once sold a dead 400W ATX PSU for 20
Remove hard drive first, nuke it yourself. Only way to be sure.
Only way to make sure that nobody could recover your porn or find out that your mail account's password is "password" even by opening your hard drive and looking for data with a gauss-meter or something of this kind?
Unless you got state secrets on your hard drive and that somebody out there might know it, writing a bunch of 0's once on your hard drive will keep anything you could have on your hard drive safe.
You expect every person on the planet with a personal computer to buy a new one within the next 2 years?
No, only about 400 millions, and yet that's a slightly conservative estimate.
Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace. With the Zune, Microsoft is trying to launch a consumer media 'perfect storm.'
I love the smell of fresh FUD in the morning.
The only reason it hasn't been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue
Does it mean that the less money you got in that kind of business the higher above the law you are?
But maybe is that a technique of security through obscurity to have few pertinent classified documents buried in the middle of lots of uninteresting classified documents ;-)
That's right, that's the reason why keeping photographs of the Area 51 secret for so long (particularly the ones taken by Skylab 1) was ridiculous, considered that the russians had already seen it for a long time.
He believes we will see the first computers as smart as people by 2015
In other news, cult followers believe that Armageddon is for 2012 and christians believe Jesus Christ will come back anytime soon.
I for one think that people who believe in the rise of Strong AI and in the technological singularity form a technology-themed cult, the reason for that is that you have no reason to believe that Strong AI will come anytime soon, since we're far from anything even remotely close to that. It's all more like wishful thinking I guess..
Beagle is the most closest, I guess...
Yup, Beagle 2 must be actually the most deeperest, considered how it must have crashed its way to the martian underground.
Every dollar spent fighting it, is a dollar wasted.
Agreed. There's no way some DRM system or anything else could make people who don't want to pay for music pay for music. The music business pretty much like a mall in which they'd let you go away without paying, lots of people would still pay for what they would buy, and some wouldn't. And in that precise situation there's nothing they can do to make the people who don't want to pay pay.
If you think you can make such people pay by using such things as DRM, you must think war on drug can be easily won.
I can only speak for myself, but I listen to more stuff from the year 1990 than from the whole of the 2000's. For the "old" music I remember the good stuff and forget the crap, and as for the music of today, I discard everything. So to me, music did change, but that's just me tho..
I totally agree with you when you say that true artists care more about making music and eventually having it heard and getting feedback than getting rich and ultra famous. Actually that whole P2P thing is a good greed detector.
However, I don't agree with you when you say that they shouldn't be called artists, musicians or actors. To me, there are two kinds of titles, the ones anyone can have, and the ones that are deserved. In the titles anyone can have, you have : musicians (you only need to hit some random keys on a piano to call yourself that), judoka (you only need go to a judo lesson once to be one and have your white belt), artist, criminal etc. In the ones you need to deserve : doctor, engineer, teacher, O.G., etc...
My point is that it's not hard to have one of the titles anyone can have, but it's not given to anyone to be good at it or successful at it, as anyone can't claim to be a doctor or an O.G., because that kind of title means you have achieved something. All of this to say that as bad of an artist/rapper/actor can be, it's still an artist/rapper/actor, it just may be an aweful one.
hahaha, yeah, my parents have never had anything but Citroëns (right now we have a Saxo and a C3). I like Peugeots too tho, although Citroën and Peugeot are pretty much clone companies now.
When will we read about the one for the GP2X on the front page? Let me guess, never?
maybe so many died because they sucked
Or maybe so many died because they didn't wait until 1942 to fight, or maybe because they got actually invaded.
Btw according to the wikipedia link someone else posted in a reply to you, about twice more american soldiers died from that war than french, but they also fought in the Pacific..
Oh well, you're probably the type of american (what else could you be?) who thinks that latin americans speak latin and who thinks there are cheerleaders in french schools.
Do you know how many French soldiers died fighting the Nazi invasion? Do you know anything about the Free French Forces or the French Resistance? It is amazing how many Americans have this unhistorical belief that the French just gave up and accepted the Nazis - they fought just as hard as every other nation and lost hundreds of thousands of people in combat. More French soldiers died battling the Nazis than US soldiers.
(Disclaimer : I'm french and this is a sarcasm) No! The french just gave up in June 1940 because Pétain said so and that proves how cowardly they are. A chance that we the american were there to save them and win the war for them, and please don't tell me about how Great Britain and Russia helped with it because everybody knows that the american troops are the sole responsible for the victory over the forces of evil.
And anyways you just have to look at the military history of France to see how cowardly they are by nature, their country was founded by cowardly barbarians and has always been lead by the worst cowards ever, such as Napoleon, no, really, these smelly frog eaters should be grateful that we stopped selling weapons to the germans and entered the war to save their sissy asses.
lol last time I heard "pommes-frites" it was someone's nickname in a french movie from the 1950's (I'm french btw)
This time let's learn from Slashdot's history and let's avoid arguing about the same things over again when it comes to addictions.
Maybe we are addicted to the Internet, but it doesn't matter because it's not because we are addicted that it's nocive (example : sex). Also, when people think we are too much into something, they say we're addicted. If we went to the hypothetical barefoot-hippie-land we'd be told that we're addicted to our shoes.
Now thank me for avoiding you to argue about this over again and give me my damn Insightful mod points.
So this company will not be worth anything in a year.
This comment sounds like these false predictions from the past that you read and laugh at for how far from the truth they were. YouTube is about as likely to die as Apple.
My two cents : record companies will rather partner with YouTube to make money out of it than sue it (isn't it what Warner Music has been doing already?). Why kill the golden egg hen?
The problem with families in which many members reach 100, is that they are more likely to die from heart diseases in their 40's. As I read recently in Science & Vie, in nature, a shorter lifespan (due to genes) means a stronger youth.
I'd rather live to 80 than live to 105 and be more likely to die of a heart disease in my 40's.
My apologies. I until now ignored the non-mathematical aspects of this and well, only paid attention to the mathematical ones.
I started a discussion here in comp.dsp if you're interested, and from the posts in this topic it seems that it has to do with some kind of distortion in the air or in our ears (that's how I understand it).
This being said, I don't think that in your example you will end up with a pure 2 kHz sine, and anyways, that doesn't explain a need for sampling frequencies higher than 44.1 kHz, since the effect we are talking about could be "included" one way or another in your final digital signal.
From your post I still really don't see the benefit of having a Nyquist frequency higher than the highest frequency you can hear, harmonics or not harmonics, you need to explain that. And I don't remember MP3 compression doing anything about harmonics, but that might be my selective memory playing tricks.
So.. the CD is dying? If it's possible that in the future artists stop using CD's and that they use analog medias or digital means (ones using lossless compressions, as they now do most of the time), then that would mean that for a while we couldn't provide ourselves an exact PCM copy of the original tracks, in other words there wouldn't be anymore the one and only bit-wise original track.
It would feel like a regression to me, although all I listen to now is MP3's.
If there are two frequences present that have a beat frequency (say 21Khz and 23 Khz), then an audible beat frequency of 2 khz will be produced
Totally wrong, what will happen is that the sound *envelope* will have a 2 kHz shape, but it won't *create* any lower frequency, in other words nothing audible will magically appear. It pisses me off when I hear bullshit like that from people who sound like they know what they are talking about.