After some more testing it seems that there is a problem with high quality mode. With the tone and sample rate I used (19kHz and 44.1k) at least the high quality encoder whistles at, some other frequency. Sounds like somewhere less than 10kHz to me.
No, the prior art just invalidates the claims it applies to. That is why patent claims are written how they are, it goes something like this:
1. A very broad claim
2. A thing as in 1 that also does something more specific
3. A thing as in 2 that also does something even more specific
And so on. If claim 1 gets thrown out, you can still fall back on 2... (Of course it can get much more complicated than that as there can be any number of broad claims and any number of more specific claims dependent on them).
How is this chording? I thought a chording system was where you had a few buttons and then each letter was assigned to a number of those buttons you have to press at once to get the letter (just like playing a chord on a piano). This seems to be a system where you make a connection between 2 contacts to make a letter - or did I miss something?
I have noticed this in the signups to my mailing list. I'm not sure why they are signing up, maybe they think they are leaving comment spam? Anyway all the addresses have the same format, a long first and last name followed by 2 numbers eg: EleftheriosZhytup84@gmail.com . Strange.
There was an interesting article about this in the economist - it seems girls are catching up with
boys (and have caught up in some countries) in math, but they are still ahead in language. So it
makes sense for them to follow careers where they have more of an advantage - law etc.
Heh, at the end of the article they have a link to a site that
requires you to solve a calculus problem to register (it gets easier
if you reload the page a few times, down to simple arithmetic).
I have a site that is only of interest to people who use verilog (a
hardware design language) I've toyed with requiring a some digital logic
problem to be solved, but the volume of spam signups it's big enough for me
to be bothered yet...
Of course this solution isn't going to work for gmail - which seems to
be the preferred email provider for the spam signups I do get these days.
The point is that viacom is trying to prove the youtube is only popular because people watch their (and other members of the class's) copywritted stuff on it. If this is true then anonymized logs will prove it just fine.
I for one tire of Google searches that return a list of b.s. sites.
It's kind of interesting that the only reason that most of these sites have value is because they show up in google searches. If google fixed its algorithms then the problem would go away. Unfortunately the ads on these sites are most likely google ads... google is making money so they have no incentive to change anything.
If you want XP Pro, just buy Vista Business and install XP Pro - the vista business license allows you to do this. Vista ultimate does too, but that is more expensive.
Well, this is a bit different. As the article says these organisms live in sealed vats, they are not out in the environment like GM crops. There is a chance of them escaping, but that's still different from deliberately releasing billions of GMOs into the wild.
Or am I completely misunderstanding the net neutrality issue?
No, it seems to me you understand it perfectly. However TFA seems to be blurring the lines between net neutrality and treating traffic differently. For instance if it were technically necessary to treat all Voice packets as high priority (it seems it isn't as VoIP works, but for the sake of argument) then there's nothing to stop a standard being agreed and implemented on a neutral internet, just so long as the voice packets are treated the same no matter who is sending and receiving them.
He completely ignores multicast in the paragraph about HTDV being trouble for the Internet, and someone should at least explain why it's not relevant. Otherwise it kind of sinks his battleship w/r/t that argument, IMO.
Multicast only works if internet TV is going to be like regular TV where a show is aired at a particular time. If it's going to be more like youtube on steroids multicast doesn't help.
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Heh, yeah, I did consider that, but you do only need to listen to the first bar to hear the problem.
After some more testing it seems that there is a problem with high quality mode. With the tone and sample rate I used (19kHz and 44.1k) at least the high quality encoder whistles at, some other frequency. Sounds like somewhere less than 10kHz to me.
I hope YouTube fix this soon.
No, the prior art just invalidates the claims it applies to. That is why patent claims are written how they are, it goes something like this:
1. A very broad claim
2. A thing as in 1 that also does something more specific
3. A thing as in 2 that also does something even more specific
And so on. If claim 1 gets thrown out, you can still fall back on 2... (Of course it can get much more complicated than that as there can be any number of broad claims and any number of more specific claims dependent on them).
What does K mean here?
I did.
How is this chording? I thought a chording system was where you had a few buttons and then each letter was assigned to a number of those buttons you have to press at once to get the letter (just like playing a chord on a piano). This seems to be a system where you make a connection between 2 contacts to make a letter - or did I miss something?
I have noticed this in the signups to my mailing list. I'm not sure why they are signing up, maybe they think they are leaving comment spam? Anyway all the addresses have the same format, a long first and last name followed by 2 numbers eg: EleftheriosZhytup84@gmail.com . Strange.
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To be fair, it's probably the whole decimal system he has a problem with, I bet 11010 would be OK.
There was an interesting article about this in the economist - it seems girls are catching up with boys (and have caught up in some countries) in math, but they are still ahead in language. So it makes sense for them to follow careers where they have more of an advantage - law etc.
Heh, at the end of the article they have a link to a site that requires you to solve a calculus problem to register (it gets easier if you reload the page a few times, down to simple arithmetic). I have a site that is only of interest to people who use verilog (a hardware design language) I've toyed with requiring a some digital logic problem to be solved, but the volume of spam signups it's big enough for me to be bothered yet...
Of course this solution isn't going to work for gmail - which seems to be the preferred email provider for the spam signups I do get these days.
The point is that viacom is trying to prove the youtube is only popular because people watch their (and other members of the class's) copywritted stuff on it. If this is true then anonymized logs will prove it just fine.
I just remember the IP addresses and type them in myself. How hard is that?
I for one tire of Google searches that return a list of b.s. sites.
It's kind of interesting that the only reason that most of these sites have value is because they show up in google searches. If google fixed its algorithms then the problem would go away. Unfortunately the ads on these sites are most likely google ads... google is making money so they have no incentive to change anything.
on a plane.
That's so last century.
Oh, oh, facial recognition.
Yeah, because faecal recognition would be kind of messy.
Turn it upside down and all will be clear.
BURN THE SATANIST!
If you want XP Pro, just buy Vista Business and install XP Pro - the vista business license allows you to do this. Vista ultimate does too, but that is more expensive.
Ok, I'll be sure to tell my people when I get back there.
Well, this is a bit different. As the article says these organisms live in sealed vats, they are not out in the environment like GM crops. There is a chance of them escaping, but that's still different from deliberately releasing billions of GMOs into the wild.
Or am I completely misunderstanding the net neutrality issue?
No, it seems to me you understand it perfectly. However TFA seems to be blurring the lines between net neutrality and treating traffic differently. For instance if it were technically necessary to treat all Voice packets as high priority (it seems it isn't as VoIP works, but for the sake of argument) then there's nothing to stop a standard being agreed and implemented on a neutral internet, just so long as the voice packets are treated the same no matter who is sending and receiving them.
He completely ignores multicast in the paragraph about HTDV being trouble for the Internet, and someone should at least explain why it's not relevant. Otherwise it kind of sinks his battleship w/r/t that argument, IMO.
Multicast only works if internet TV is going to be like regular TV where a show is aired at a particular time. If it's going to be more like youtube on steroids multicast doesn't help.
And how do we know we can trust you with our bookmarks?
You don't! It's exactly like google!
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