What is it with you people that don't understand anything. "Information wants to be free" isn't some crap excuse for "lol I don't wanna pay". It means that it's fundamental for information that can be copied without loss to spread out, multiply, move around, and that you have to spend a lot of effort to prevent this unless you want it to happen. What you wish or not has nothing to do with it.
Yes, because the chinese are stupid and they don't have any engineers.
What the hell are you people on? Can't you see the clear patterns? China began exactly like every other nation: first they copy, then the invent, then they lead. Compare with Japan. In the 60ies, you spoke of "cheap japanese copies". Then they took over, now you have Toyota and Sony.
Do you really really believe that a 5000 year old civilization with nearly 1.5 billion people, the highest average IQ in the world and lead by engineers, won't figure out how to design a CPU? What will it take for you to wake up?
We do the hard work of inventing a lot of things, the hard work of refining the processes. And then other countries and peoples learn from our mistakes and do "better" than we did at it.
And all of mankind benefits. Too bad so many people are stuck in the "us and them" mindset.
Summary: Everywhere[1] you actually have to work with pi, you always need a factor of 2. Pi is only half the circle because the circumference is divided with the diameter instead of the radius as it should have been. Using 6.28... as the circle constant would simplify and tidy up all formulas and help students understanding the concepts.
[1] Except for the area of a circle, where the '2' is actually omitted by pure luck.
How do you figure they could license the patents? It's most probably legally impossible unless they write new browsers from scratch and then pay from their own pockets for everyone downloading their software. The ball isn't in the hand of the OSS people here.
Absolutely not. A 24-bit fixpoint/integer format will still have a ceiling, thus everything will still be mastered as loud as before. The only way this would not be true is if all audio players would play 24-bit files louder so that, say, 24-bit files would have a 4 bit headroom compared to the 16-bit file, but this is just not true. Perhaps it would be wiser to implement an 8+16 bit floating point format which could have a chance of surviving the loudness war, but I wouldn't bet on it.
A correctly mastered 16-bit file wouldn't have any audible difference compared to the 24-bit file anyway, unless we're talking measurable differences instead of differences you can actually hear. I'd rather see an increase in the samplerate, but preferably both.
No, entries in the hosts-file doesn't make your computer into a nameserver. They do however override the system lookup so that you don't have to use a name server for this.
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Aw come one, you can't tell stories like that and not tell us which one was fired!
Maybe your motor skills improved since then, have you tried using a mouse the last years?
So you suggest that people buy Apple computers even when they fail, because you can run a better operating system in a VM? Let me quote:
What a total retard.
What is it with you people that don't understand anything. "Information wants to be free" isn't some crap excuse for "lol I don't wanna pay". It means that it's fundamental for information that can be copied without loss to spread out, multiply, move around, and that you have to spend a lot of effort to prevent this unless you want it to happen. What you wish or not has nothing to do with it.
They are obviously refering to the age of the earth.
Yes, because the chinese are stupid and they don't have any engineers.
What the hell are you people on? Can't you see the clear patterns? China began exactly like every other nation: first they copy, then the invent, then they lead. Compare with Japan. In the 60ies, you spoke of "cheap japanese copies". Then they took over, now you have Toyota and Sony.
Do you really really believe that a 5000 year old civilization with nearly 1.5 billion people, the highest average IQ in the world and lead by engineers, won't figure out how to design a CPU? What will it take for you to wake up?
We do the hard work of inventing a lot of things, the hard work of refining the processes. And then other countries and peoples learn from our mistakes and do "better" than we did at it.
And all of mankind benefits. Too bad so many people are stuck in the "us and them" mindset.
Summary: Everywhere[1] you actually have to work with pi, you always need a factor of 2. Pi is only half the circle because the circumference is divided with the diameter instead of the radius as it should have been. Using 6.28... as the circle constant would simplify and tidy up all formulas and help students understanding the concepts.
[1] Except for the area of a circle, where the '2' is actually omitted by pure luck.
How do you figure they could license the patents? It's most probably legally impossible unless they write new browsers from scratch and then pay from their own pockets for everyone downloading their software. The ball isn't in the hand of the OSS people here.
Stop being silly. Perhaps after reading this, you will understand why it's simply retarded to even mention pi: http://tauday.com/
Q: What are they used for? I can't think of any scenario where this would be useful but I'm sure there's something I'm missing.
Their own website states that it started out at 60W, so it's not been 4W all the time, maybe only the last 50 years.. :P
So you mean that a company can actually have feelings now?
What makes you believe you can't turn them on and off? You can do that today. They are just changing the defaults.
How can copyright be lost, if not due to time?
How did intellectual property give us the internet?
When you get a bullshit "or else", you ask "or what?". Not just do whatever they ask.
Where "much smaller" is 100MB instead of 150MB.
Absolutely not. A 24-bit fixpoint/integer format will still have a ceiling, thus everything will still be mastered as loud as before. The only way this would not be true is if all audio players would play 24-bit files louder so that, say, 24-bit files would have a 4 bit headroom compared to the 16-bit file, but this is just not true. Perhaps it would be wiser to implement an 8+16 bit floating point format which could have a chance of surviving the loudness war, but I wouldn't bet on it.
A correctly mastered 16-bit file wouldn't have any audible difference compared to the 24-bit file anyway, unless we're talking measurable differences instead of differences you can actually hear. I'd rather see an increase in the samplerate, but preferably both.
No, entries in the hosts-file doesn't make your computer into a nameserver. They do however override the system lookup so that you don't have to use a name server for this.
So not only did the conservatives remove UK from the EU, they now cut it off from europe and let it free to roam in the atlantic ocean?
Yes.
Dig the cables down, like in developed countries?
That's just a lie perpetrated by the liberal media.