I've seen the beta ships with gcc 3.1.1. If this holds for the release, that means there's going to be yet another C++ ABI incompatibility when gcc 3.2 comes out. I just hope RedHat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0 both ship with the same compiler.
Cool project. In fact for voice only, Speex should be much more adapted. Last time I checked, I could get the same quality as Ogg with almost half the bit-rate (of course, the opposite is true for music). Also, I think the CPU requirements are lower. As for modem communication, it's quite feasible since you can get intelligible speech with as low as 6 kbps. If you're curious, you can try the CVS version of Linphone which integrates Speex at 8 kbps and 15 kbps.
Maybe the constant warning is a C/C++ issue. I usually compile with gcc and flags -Wall -ansi -pedantic and get no warning so I assumed it was correct ANSI C. Have you tried compiling with a C compiler?
As for law students having a look at the patents, I'd be really interested if you know one! Unfortunately, I've looked at a coupe US patents online and it seems like you need to be both an engineer and a lawyer to understand what's going on... Descriptions are so obscure that they can make "1+1=2" look like an revolutionary innovation.
Speex is LGPL, so I'd consider that buisness-friendly...
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If you have the original CD, rip it and encode. If you don't, keep the mp3s.
I'd like to add something to that, AFAIK the patents on MP3 only apply to the encoder so if you already have the MP3 file, there's no problem for decoding.
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I never tested it myself, but many people reported having no problem getting Speex to work under Win32 and even WinCE. Actually, most of Speex is just a pure ANSI C library that can probably compile on about any platform. Then, there's the file-based encoder/decoder that require libogg and gettext, that's all.
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I thought some of you could be interested in my project Speex (http://speex.sourceforge.net), which is like Vorbis but optimized for speech. Bit-rates ranging from 8 kbps to 32 kbps for good quality speech...
It seems like MS is sending the message: "If you want to have 'free' MS software, say you're going Linux". Wonder how many organizations/countries without any intent to switch to Linux (will) have "Linux programs" just for negotiating with MS?
Walmart usually carries ONE Linux title -- Linux (Mandrake or RedHat), no applications
Yes and no. Though there's only one box, there's tons of software in it. If you buy Windows, all you get is Windows (well according to MS definition of an OS). When you buy Mandrake Linux, you get many word processors (abiword, ooffice, kword,...), spreadsheets, 10 browsers, scientific software,... Most useful and widespread open-sources software gets included in the distro, so there's no need to sell it separately.
It does in a PC, where they only put two 16-bit channels so you need two accesses to each bank to fetch the 64-bit bus-width (it's serialization).
In Alpha, there's no serialization. You've got an eight-channel (16 bit each, unless they use the newer 32-bit wide?) configuration. That means that they are 128 bits wide. In order to get the same performance from DDR, you'd need to have a bus that's 1024-bit wide or something like that, which is not practical...
I don't like RAMBUS at all, but the industry has to come up with something faster because it's clearly the fastest on platforms where it's used correctly (I don't include the current PC in that category).
Why do you trust the education of your children to your government?
If you don't trust the government (hence the school), why do you insist on having religion in school. Personally, I trust the school more than I trust the average parent... (though that's not a reason to rely only on the school)
I'm not starting a fight, I'm just attempting to get you to think.
I don't think that implying that everybody doesn't agree with you doesn't think is the best way to have a good discussion...
Most people in this country are monotheistic, and since majority rules we have "In God we Trust". If you want to be in a Ahtiest country, go to China.
I thought the majority had ruled that there was going to be a separation of the state and the church. (note, I am not an Athiest) I too live in a country (Canada) where the majority is monotheistic yet kids don't have to say prayers (or "In God We Trust"-like plegde) at school anymore. Religion is back where it belongs: at home.
'round(82.845)' returns '82.84' instead of '82.85'
OK, my guess is that since the value is stored in binary, 82.845 is not a rational number anymore and it is stored as 82.849999... Rounding that to 82.84 would then be correct.
With the current technology, the photons are not used directly to etch the silicon, but it is used to act on a photo-sensitive compound, which will then protect (or not) the silicon against acid etching, ion implant,...
Regardless, I believe one of the attributes that makes US currency recognizable around the world is its simple color scheme. Its powerful, and looks like no other currency. When color is added to US currency, I fully expect the value of the dolor to drop because it will no longer have the bold, simple 2 color scheme. It will be just like every other paper currency on the world market.
To all countries in the world with inflation problems. Change your paper currency to a bold, simple 2 color scheme. That way everyone will be very attracted to your money that it will be worth as much as USD. Great idea!
They're even trying to make them backwards-compatible with vending machines.
That's been solved differently in many countries: makeing coins for small amounts. In Canada, we've had $2 coins (approx $1.50 US) for years now. This makes sense for many reasons. First coins cost a bit more but last so much longer, so there's money being saved by printing less paper bills. Second, I prefer coins to having a pile of $1 paper bill in my wallet... Third, our vending machines don't need optic readers that screw up 50% of the time.
Just because you personally can't see or detect the methods of protection, doesn't mean they aren't there.
What's the use of having a great copy-protection method when people can't tell the difference just by looking at it. In many places, new bills have a hologram printed on them, so you can see easily if it's been copied (with a color copier or something simple). With US bills, I doubt you can tell quite easily... and how many people/stores check all bills very carefully?
(shameless plug) Take a look at Speex, an open-source, patent-free speech codec (Speex is to speech what Vorbis is to music). Speex should soon be available in Linphone too!
Anyhow, records, as far as I know, can produce a far wider range of frequencies than the CD...
The CD's can reproduce frequencies up to 20 kHz. Past that, the speakers won't respond anyway, regardless of the reponse of the recording device...
...the CD, who's 'inaudible' frequencies are lopped off the top and bottom end of a CD's audio data (i'm sure somebody else can provide the actual freq. range.)
I'm not sure if you are refering to the "frequency warping" (aliasing) which caused problems on early CD, but the problem's been fixed a while ago with better oversampling.
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I've seen the beta ships with gcc 3.1.1. If this holds for the release, that means there's going to be yet another C++ ABI incompatibility when gcc 3.2 comes out. I just hope RedHat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0 both ship with the same compiler.
Cool project. In fact for voice only, Speex should be much more adapted. Last time I checked, I could get the same quality as Ogg with almost half the bit-rate (of course, the opposite is true for music). Also, I think the CPU requirements are lower. As for modem communication, it's quite feasible since you can get intelligible speech with as low as 6 kbps. If you're curious, you can try the CVS version of Linphone which integrates Speex at 8 kbps and 15 kbps.
Maybe the constant warning is a C/C++ issue. I usually compile with gcc and flags -Wall -ansi -pedantic and get no warning so I assumed it was correct ANSI C. Have you tried compiling with a C compiler?
As for law students having a look at the patents, I'd be really interested if you know one! Unfortunately, I've looked at a coupe US patents online and it seems like you need to be both an engineer and a lawyer to understand what's going on... Descriptions are so obscure that they can make "1+1=2" look like an revolutionary innovation.
Speex is LGPL, so I'd consider that buisness-friendly...
If you have the original CD, rip it and encode. If you don't, keep the mp3s.
I'd like to add something to that, AFAIK the patents on MP3 only apply to the encoder so if you already have the MP3 file, there's no problem for decoding.
I never tested it myself, but many people reported having no problem getting Speex to work under Win32 and even WinCE. Actually, most of Speex is just a pure ANSI C library that can probably compile on about any platform. Then, there's the file-based encoder/decoder that require libogg and gettext, that's all.
I thought some of you could be interested in my project Speex (http://speex.sourceforge.net), which is like Vorbis but optimized for speech. Bit-rates ranging from 8 kbps to 32 kbps for good quality speech...
It seems like MS is sending the message: "If you want to have 'free' MS software, say you're going Linux". Wonder how many organizations/countries without any intent to switch to Linux (will) have "Linux programs" just for negotiating with MS?
Walmart usually carries ONE Linux title -- Linux (Mandrake or RedHat), no applications
...), spreadsheets, 10 browsers, scientific software, ... Most useful and widespread open-sources software gets included in the distro, so there's no need to sell it separately.
Yes and no. Though there's only one box, there's tons of software in it. If you buy Windows, all you get is Windows (well according to MS definition of an OS). When you buy Mandrake Linux, you get many word processors (abiword, ooffice, kword,
the latency on it sucks balls
It does in a PC, where they only put two 16-bit channels so you need two accesses to each bank to fetch the 64-bit bus-width (it's serialization).
In Alpha, there's no serialization. You've got an eight-channel (16 bit each, unless they use the newer 32-bit wide?) configuration. That means that they are 128 bits wide. In order to get the same performance from DDR, you'd need to have a bus that's 1024-bit wide or something like that, which is not practical...
I don't like RAMBUS at all, but the industry has to come up with something faster because it's clearly the fastest on platforms where it's used correctly (I don't include the current PC in that category).
The notes just mention "the latest desktop technology". Does anyone know whether that means it includes gnome 2?
Here's another way to control a robot with a GUI: RobotFlow
Why do you trust the education of your children to your government?
If you don't trust the government (hence the school), why do you insist on having religion in school. Personally, I trust the school more than I trust the average parent... (though that's not a reason to rely only on the school)
I'm not starting a fight, I'm just attempting to get you to think.
I don't think that implying that everybody doesn't agree with you doesn't think is the best way to have a good discussion...
Most people in this country are monotheistic, and since majority rules we have "In God we Trust". If you want to be in a Ahtiest country, go to China.
I thought the majority had ruled that there was going to be a separation of the state and the church. (note, I am not an Athiest) I too live in a country (Canada) where the majority is monotheistic yet kids don't have to say prayers (or "In God We Trust"-like plegde) at school anymore. Religion is back where it belongs: at home.
With separation of state and religion, the "In God We Trust" has no reason to be there. Or why not have "In no God We Trust" or "In GodS We Trust"?
'round(82.845)' returns '82.84' instead of '82.85'
OK, my guess is that since the value is stored in binary, 82.845 is not a rational number anymore and it is stored as 82.849999... Rounding that to 82.84 would then be correct.
instead of photo-etching them
...
With the current technology, the photons are not used directly to etch the silicon, but it is used to act on a photo-sensitive compound, which will then protect (or not) the silicon against acid etching, ion implant,
Regardless, I believe one of the attributes that makes US currency recognizable around the world is its simple color scheme. Its powerful, and looks like no other currency. When color is added to US currency, I fully expect the value of the dolor to drop because it will no longer have the bold, simple 2 color scheme. It will be just like every other paper currency on the world market.
To all countries in the world with inflation problems. Change your paper currency to a bold, simple 2 color scheme. That way everyone will be very attracted to your money that it will be worth as much as USD. Great idea!
They're even trying to make them backwards-compatible with vending machines.
That's been solved differently in many countries: makeing coins for small amounts. In Canada, we've had $2 coins (approx $1.50 US) for years now. This makes sense for many reasons. First coins cost a bit more but last so much longer, so there's money being saved by printing less paper bills. Second, I prefer coins to having a pile of $1 paper bill in my wallet... Third, our vending machines don't need optic readers that screw up 50% of the time.
Just because you personally can't see or detect the methods of protection, doesn't mean they aren't there.
What's the use of having a great copy-protection method when people can't tell the difference just by looking at it. In many places, new bills have a hologram printed on them, so you can see easily if it's been copied (with a color copier or something simple). With US bills, I doubt you can tell quite easily... and how many people/stores check all bills very carefully?
(shameless plug) Take a look at Speex, an open-source, patent-free speech codec (Speex is to speech what Vorbis is to music). Speex should soon be available in Linphone too!
Don't forget, yesterday's supercomputers are today's pocket calculators...
I'd say today's supercomputers are tomorrows giant toasters...
Imagine the PR that the chip manufacturer would have by powering the biggest supercomputer in Canada.
AFAIK, the biggest supercomputer in Canada is here and it's built by NEC (SX-5)
Anyhow, records, as far as I know, can produce a far wider range of frequencies than the CD...
...the CD, who's 'inaudible' frequencies are lopped off the top and bottom end of a CD's audio data (i'm sure somebody else can provide the actual freq. range.)
The CD's can reproduce frequencies up to 20 kHz. Past that, the speakers won't respond anyway, regardless of the reponse of the recording device...
I'm not sure if you are refering to the "frequency warping" (aliasing) which caused problems on early CD, but the problem's been fixed a while ago with better oversampling.
I'd add more to that. Had this "new DNS" thing had a chance to work, MS would have done it alone just so they could lock non-MS clients out.