Must be a Microsoft keyboard, to serve the needs of MS-operating-system-using poeple that must hit that button more often than users of any other OS...
Re:It takes SIX MONTHS to find a particular MP3?!
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You can get any mp3 you want in 5 minutes or less if you like either 1)Any of today's crappy pop music, or pop music for the past 10 years or so, 2)"underground" stuff, or 3) MTV. For those of us who like things other than what's played on the radio constantly, it's sometimes difficult to find things. I spent a month looking for a particular recording of a Gershwin song on Cdnow, in record stores etc... and then Napster came to my rescue, someone else had it too. Saved!
That's incorrect. I attended the same lectures at FNAL this spring, and what they were referring to is currently called the "dreamotron" because it is, frankly, a dream currently. The idea is to build a gigantic particle accelerator that touches the Fermilab site whose diameter extends approximately 100 miles northwest of the site.
Problems with this: 1) The current Tevatron accelerates to energies around 1.8 TeV (tera electron-volts). This dreamotron would require a "main injector" roughly three times the size of the tevatron to accelerate a hydrogen ion to the energies needed for a 100mile ring. 2) Obviously it would be somewhat difficult to dig underneath northern IL, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa in order to make this tunnel.
I am missing some information here because I don't have all of my notes on the subject... is anyone else more informed on this?
Maybe. Imagine it... your portable mp3 player now holds not one hour, not 80 hours, but something like 216 DAYS worth of music! 5200 hours of it! And that's only if you used the aformentioned "penny" sized disc. Make that a 3 inch platter and god only knows what will happen.
Now, the reason this will not happen is because you cannot make one of these little wonders in a 5.25" bay sized WickedBurner(tm) with today's technology. It's based on a mold, like mass produced CDs are.
This has been coming for a while...
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Neat stuff!!! Finally we will have the storage capacities that the movies and such have promised for years now...
I remember a hard drive manufacturer explaining at one time how there was literally no limit to the amount of data stored on magnetic platters, until you reached the point where you moved individual electrons around on the disc. Looks like maybe we won't need to push that technology quite that far though... look what's here!
It wasn't so scary for me the first couple of times... but then again, there was nothing like menuconfig or xconfig out yet when I was learning this stuff. I had installed SLS linux on my massive 100mb hard drive, and I used it because it made my computer as useful as the HP/UX cluster I normally dialed into via a long distance call.... ahh.... the good old days... nothing like downloading an entire distro over a 2400bps modem link. I did it.
Think of.... say, arpeggios on the computer keyboard maybe? Or as I have seen suggested before, "keyboard blocks" like "1qazxsw23edcvfr45tgb" which are very difficult to crack, and secure unless someone sees you typing it!
The way I see it, the more support for Linux there is, the better it is for all of us. Since when is anything about Linux supposed to revolve around one (or just a few) sources?
I mean a real implementation, not just GPM stuff. Last time I checked, it was annoyingly difficult to get a block of text from, say, kedit, into, say... this box that I'm typing into right now.
I'm still waiting for all apps to work together to have cut 'n paste support as well as Windows has. E.G. you can select ANY text, almost anywhere, right click, and hit copy. Then you can paste it into ANY text box, anywhere in the system. Can this happen in Linux?
As much as I am tired of Microsoft, I am even MORE sick of AOL. I am forced to use AOL every once in a while, like when I am stuck in a hotel room and I must get online, and each time I use their service, I find it to be terrible.
AOL has been a BIG annoyance to the internet community ever since they first released thousands of moron chatroom "A/S/L?" checkers into the population of the net. Would we not be better off if they just WENT AWAY?
And for God's sake, USE SOME STANDARD FRICKIN SOFTWARE! What exactly is the point of making it nearly impossible to use an external web browser or ICQ with AOL without being disconnected after 5 or 10 minutes simply because you aren't interacting with the nearly-useless AOL software?
Forgive me if I sound bitter. There are people living here, connected to our LAN with direct - already paid for - internet service, and they STILL use AOL because they don't know that there is any other way to connect to the internet. I feel like AOL is like an army of Care Bears that make you feel all warm and fuzzy about using their service and the net, but they somehow leave you totally uneducated about anything particularly normal. What gives?
Someone in the Muppets thread was explaining that the "proper" pronunciation of gigabyte is actually "jiggabyte".... but I don't believe it. Even if that is technically right, the way EVERYONE says it is GIGabyte... you know, with a hard G. Right?
Now what would be a truly Real Good Thing (tm) would be to take this soundbyte and include it in every Linux distro, and play it at the part of installation where you find out if your sound card is configured correctly.
Oh wait... that part doesn't exist yet? (in the distros I have used at least) Well, it will eventually!
This also raises the possibility of the computer mispronouncing Linux all by itself... but that's a different story!
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Sorry to be the evil advocate here, but did anyone else here go to the MS bash?
Must be a Microsoft keyboard, to serve the needs of MS-operating-system-using poeple that must hit that button more often than users of any other OS...
You can get any mp3 you want in 5 minutes or less if you like either 1)Any of today's crappy pop music, or pop music for the past 10 years or so, 2)"underground" stuff, or 3) MTV.
For those of us who like things other than what's played on the radio constantly, it's sometimes difficult to find things. I spent a month looking for a particular recording of a Gershwin song on Cdnow, in record stores etc... and then Napster came to my rescue, someone else had it too. Saved!
Give them a break... it's BETA software for cryin' out loud, wait til they release a final version to bitch about the quality of it.
They are working on a new client, just deal with it for now... the awesome usefulness of the one that's out far outweighs it's kludgy interface.
That's incorrect. I attended the same lectures at FNAL this spring, and what they were referring to is currently called the "dreamotron" because it is, frankly, a dream currently. The idea is to build a gigantic particle accelerator that touches the Fermilab site whose diameter extends approximately 100 miles northwest of the site.
Problems with this:
1) The current Tevatron accelerates to energies around 1.8 TeV (tera electron-volts). This dreamotron would require a "main injector" roughly three times the size of the tevatron to accelerate a hydrogen ion to the energies needed for a 100mile ring.
2) Obviously it would be somewhat difficult to dig underneath northern IL, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa in order to make this tunnel.
I am missing some information here because I don't have all of my notes on the subject... is anyone else more informed on this?
Maybe. Imagine it... your portable mp3 player now holds not one hour, not 80 hours, but something like 216 DAYS worth of music! 5200 hours of it! And that's only if you used the aformentioned "penny" sized disc. Make that a 3 inch platter and god only knows what will happen.
Now, the reason this will not happen is because you cannot make one of these little wonders in a 5.25" bay sized WickedBurner(tm) with today's technology. It's based on a mold, like mass produced CDs are.
Neat stuff!!! Finally we will have the storage capacities that the movies and such have promised for years now...
I remember a hard drive manufacturer explaining at one time how there was literally no limit to the amount of data stored on magnetic platters, until you reached the point where you moved individual electrons around on the disc. Looks like maybe we won't need to push that technology quite that far though... look what's here!
It wasn't so scary for me the first couple of times... but then again, there was nothing like menuconfig or xconfig out yet when I was learning this stuff. I had installed SLS linux on my massive 100mb hard drive, and I used it because it made my computer as useful as the HP/UX cluster I normally dialed into via a long distance call.... ahh.... the good old days... nothing like downloading an entire distro over a 2400bps modem link. I did it.
Think of.... say, arpeggios on the computer keyboard maybe? Or as I have seen suggested before, "keyboard blocks" like "1qazxsw23edcvfr45tgb" which are very difficult to crack, and secure unless someone sees you typing it!
YES, THIS is what I am talking about! Thank you for explaining it better than I could.
The way I see it, the more support for Linux there is, the better it is for all of us. Since when is anything about Linux supposed to revolve around one (or just a few) sources?
I mean a real implementation, not just GPM stuff. Last time I checked, it was annoyingly difficult to get a block of text from, say, kedit, into, say... this box that I'm typing into right now.
I'm still waiting for all apps to work together to have cut 'n paste support as well as Windows has. E.G. you can select ANY text, almost anywhere, right click, and hit copy. Then you can paste it into ANY text box, anywhere in the system. Can this happen in Linux?
As much as I am tired of Microsoft, I am even MORE sick of AOL. I am forced to use AOL every once in a while, like when I am stuck in a hotel room and I must get online, and each time I use their service, I find it to be terrible.
AOL has been a BIG annoyance to the internet community ever since they first released thousands of moron chatroom "A/S/L?" checkers into the population of the net. Would we not be better off if they just WENT AWAY?
And for God's sake, USE SOME STANDARD FRICKIN SOFTWARE! What exactly is the point of making it nearly impossible to use an external web browser or ICQ with AOL without being disconnected after 5 or 10 minutes simply because you aren't interacting with the nearly-useless AOL software?
Forgive me if I sound bitter. There are people living here, connected to our LAN with direct - already paid for - internet service, and they STILL use AOL because they don't know that there is any other way to connect to the internet. I feel like AOL is like an army of Care Bears that make you feel all warm and fuzzy about using their service and the net, but they somehow leave you totally uneducated about anything particularly normal. What gives?
Someone in the Muppets thread was explaining that the "proper" pronunciation of gigabyte is actually "jiggabyte" .... but I don't believe it. Even if that is technically right, the way EVERYONE says it is GIGabyte... you know, with a hard G. Right?
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Is there anyone besides myself out there that still says "string" whenever they see "$"?
This comes from spending WAY too much time coding in Basic back in the day!
I only do it if there is a $ at the end of a word though. Q$ is "Q STRING" to me.
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Now what would be a truly Real Good Thing (tm) would be to take this soundbyte and include it in every Linux distro, and play it at the part of installation where you find out if your sound card is configured correctly.
Oh wait... that part doesn't exist yet? (in the distros I have used at least) Well, it will eventually!
This also raises the possibility of the computer mispronouncing Linux all by itself... but that's a different story!
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