ClearType works with LCDs because there are extremely well defined pixels (which is also why you don't want to run LCD panels at non-native resolutions), so breaking them into subpixels is easy. On a CRT, each phosphor isn't associated with a single pixel, so using subpixels on that kind of screen is basically useless (it turns into antialiasing with a color fringe on each side).
Frankly, I can't stand ClearType even on LCD panels. While it makes large fonts clearer, it just blurs smaller fonts, and appears to make them shrink even smaller. I can tweak Xft to exclude whatever point-size range I want from subpixel rendering, but I can't do it with ClearType. To make matters worse, ClearType often fails to position horizontal and vertical lines on pixel boundaries, so you end up with blurry Is, ls, Ts, etc even on LCD panels.
The Google request was about porn in general, because the DOJ wants to justify the COPA which was about preventing children from accessing pornography online. They wanted the statistics so they could use them to "prove" (as SCOTUS told them to do) that the law was needed in it's current form to prevent children from being exposed to that pornography. Rather interesting that the DOJ waited until the balance of power in SCOTUS changed, eh? It would be nice if the DOJ at least pretended it wasn't an arm of the Republican party during this administration.
Maybe because IT careers in North America are developing a rotten reputation. It seems that no one wants to pay a fair wage for the amount of education and experience they're demanding. The hours suck, the benefits are getting slim, and the work environment is getting more and more hostile. Anyone who says women can't do math is wrong. They did the math, discovered it wasn't worth it, and found a different interest to pursue. Bioengineering is a growing field, and there's always demands for lawyers. Both pay well for reasonable amounts of work.
Lotus, Wordperfect, Netscape, Symantec. What do/did all these companies have in common? They wrote software that relied on Microsoft's platform. They were/are all subject to various dirty tricks by Microsoft to give Microsoft an edge over them (withholding beta versions and programming documentation until retail release of their OS, etc). These companies were so incredibly beholden to Microsoft, that when Microsoft wanted to gobble up their market, there really wasn't much they could do. Sure, they made mistakes, but so has Microsoft. The difference is that Microsoft is hypercompetitive, and will do anything to win. Sometimes that includes dirty tricks.
This is a bit OT, but does anyone else find it a little... funny... that the DOJ decided to resurrect the COPA almost immediately after it became obvious that Alito's appointment to the Supreme Court was going to happen. Isn't it just a little transparent? They could at least PRETEND that they're not just another arm of the Republican party? I don't know, maybe waiting a few months before trying this?
Just keep in mind that you will see performance degradation with RAID 5 when you're doing a lot of writes to the drive. You can get significant read performance increase from RAID 5, but parity generation can take quite a performance toll on writes (each write must be accompanied by a disk/cache read from each non-parity drive, and a write to the corresponding parity block).
If you get SCSI/SAS RAID 5, strongly consider getting a controller with a battery backed cache module. First, it'll help prevent bad blocks from appearing due to power failures during write operations by retrying any writes that were pending before the power failure (drives with unreadable sectors may be kicked off the array, and you don't want that happening unnecessarily). Second, it'll also reduce the likelihood of data corruption due to a power failure, although you may not want to trust in this too heavily. A reliable UPS is very important, but mistakes happen - battery replacement indicators get missed, power failure shutdown doesn't get tested after a configuration change, cables get knocked loose, etc. If it wasn't bad enough that your server went down when it wasn't supposed to, how are you going to feel if the array is out of order, too?
'Modern' motherboards typically have a boot block that will let you minimally boot to a floppy to reflash the BIOS. You won't have any video, but you should be able to reflash the boards. Some even give you a backup BIOS so if something goes wrong, you just have to switch a jumper and boot the backup copy.
I have heard of others doing things like this, particularily for those boards affected by the dreaded CIH virus. Plenty of boards were killed by that virus when it activated and flashed the BIOS of most Intel-based (430TX/HX/FX) boards.
Don't worry, WHQL certification never stopped Microsoft from disclaiming responsibility for the drivers they ship. To be fair, it's reasonably easy to add code to a driver that is turned off during testing (via a registry key, for example), and is turned on in the shipping driver via the driver installer. WHQL certification is only slightly less useless than no certification.
And you've just proven that you've missed his. If you're so offended by the fact that someone may disagree with your politics, you should just leave, because you won't enjoy college. If professors are giving students low marks because they don't agree with the prof's politics, the professor in question should be forced out.
There are limitations on this, of course. If you write a paper in a biology course about 'Intelligent Design' and why evolution is wrong, don't be surprised if you get a failing mark (you're not in theology class). If you're asked to write a paper on Russian culture, and spend the entire paper ranting about communism, don't be surprised with a failing mark (you didn't do the assignment). If the paper is on the politics of abortion, you should be graded fairly regardless of if you're pro-abortion or anti-abortion. If you're asked to write a paper on the current war in Iraq, you should be fairly graded regardless of if you're anti-war or pro-war.
This nonsense, on the other hand, is probably just a bunch of folks who miss McCarthyism, and have this vague suspicion that there are still communists in the education system that need to be harassed. The sooner both liberals and conservatives get out of this "I don't want to hear anything I don't agree with" mode, the better off we'll all be.
Not to worry, the "educational video" Hells Bells is coming out on DVD. A sequel was apparently made, too. Now an entire new generation can learn of the evils of rock and roll music. Too bad most kids are too smart to take that nonsense seriously.
The numbers game is hardly unique to the computer industry. The automotive industry quotes horsepower, mileage, torque, and various other measurements that don't really tell you much about the vehicle. The home audio industry will try to wow you with PMPO, frequency response, THX and DTS specifications. The home video industry will attempt to seduce you with HDTV (1080i versus 720p), comb filters, upconversion filters, brightness and contrast ratios.
It's possible to make an intelligent decision using these numbers, but only if you know how to compare them, and what they mean.
RISC and CISC are both dead. RISC CPUs picked up SIMD instructions, and various other CISC-like designs, and CISC CPUs picked up pipelining, superscalar execution units, etc. The only people who should really care about RISC versus CISC these days are marketing departments, because the actual designed features of the chips have converged, rather than diverged.
Not zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is an idiots policy. It means you fail both a cheater and the poor sap that had his work stolen. If you find a cheater, you confront him/her on it, and then you decide the punishment. It's foolish to make a list of infractions, and a list of punishments and refuse to allow a human to decide what punishment is acceptable in the situation.
We don't need any more students expelled for carrying a dangerous plastic butter knife into a school. Zero tolerance is replacing a human's judgement with a hard set of rules, and it really doesn't benefit anyone.
Or it could simply be the fact there were very, very few "must have" games released in 2005. I can't think of one game I wanted to rush out and purchase in the last twelve months (hard to think of any I wanted to download, either). But, of course, that can't be the reason. Nope, must be piracy.
I suggest you learn how power supplies work. At their most basic level, they consist of a diode and a capacitor. You will not be able to discharge the capacitors by shorting the pins of the PSU because of those diodes. It's far easier to discharge them by removing power from the computer and attempting to power it on.
I'm not an EE (and only have the absolute basic knowledge of electronics), so I can't really meaningfully elaborate further.
The Power PC port of WinNT wasn't for Macintoshes. It was for Motorola and IBM workstations and servers. I don't think it was possible to boot Windows NT on a Macintosh, if for no other reason than the Apple firmware didn't understand anything but the Apple partition structure.
No, it's not because of copyright concerns. It's the fact the MP3 codec is patented by Fraunhofer IIS. Fraunhofer has said they allow people to use implement the playback portions of their patents as long as the resulting program is distributed for free, but this isn't OSI compatible. The free WinAMP player was okay, putting it on a Debian CD which may be sold was not.
Don't worry, he's not on the board. He simply bought a single share. That might get him the opportunity to ask a question during the shareholder's meeting.
You do know that the 360 will use HD-DVD's only for movies, not games, right? Sony is including Blu-Ray as a punishment to the wallets of gamers just to push the format.
You're absolutely right. There's no way it was done because some game developers were already pushing the limits of DVD-9. It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that the addition of high resolution textures would only make the 9GB limit for DVDs feel even more constricting. And there's no way that HD FMV sequences would take up more space, either! Nope, it's all gotta be Sony trying to gouge its customers again.
Certainly, Sony would like to leverage the PS3 to promote the market penetration of Blu-ray players over HD-DVD, but it's foolish to think that's the only reason why such a drive would be going into the PS3.
$1,800 sounds more like the price of a blu-ray recorder, and perhaps that's a little cheap for an introductory price for a BD recorder (I would expect $5,000 to $3,000). $1,800 for a high-end DVD player with a different laser is a bit high. $1,800 for a DVD-recorder with a different laser isn't.
I won't be surprised. Same thing happened with the Xbox 360. The great thing is that since Sony is so tight-lippped about certain aspects of the PS3, there's plenty of things to gossip about!
In other words, it's just corporate welfare. Free money, for which no public benefit is expected, given in the vague hope that it'll help employ some more people or something. Why am I not surprised?
A couple nits. The standard versions of Windows 2000 and 2003 indeed can only handle 4GB of memory at maximum. The Windows 2000 Advanced server, or Windows 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter edition can handle up to 64GB of RAM via PAE. Each application is limited to 2GB on any edition, unless the/3GB switch is used for the kernel, in which case, the maximum addressable application space increases to 3GB, and the maximum RAM decreases to 16GB. An EMS-like system (for those who remember writing programs in DOS) exists for accessing RAM outside the limits of the normal 2GB or 3GB address space allowed for applications.
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Frankly, I can't stand ClearType even on LCD panels. While it makes large fonts clearer, it just blurs smaller fonts, and appears to make them shrink even smaller. I can tweak Xft to exclude whatever point-size range I want from subpixel rendering, but I can't do it with ClearType. To make matters worse, ClearType often fails to position horizontal and vertical lines on pixel boundaries, so you end up with blurry Is, ls, Ts, etc even on LCD panels.
The Google request was about porn in general, because the DOJ wants to justify the COPA which was about preventing children from accessing pornography online. They wanted the statistics so they could use them to "prove" (as SCOTUS told them to do) that the law was needed in it's current form to prevent children from being exposed to that pornography. Rather interesting that the DOJ waited until the balance of power in SCOTUS changed, eh? It would be nice if the DOJ at least pretended it wasn't an arm of the Republican party during this administration.
Maybe because IT careers in North America are developing a rotten reputation. It seems that no one wants to pay a fair wage for the amount of education and experience they're demanding. The hours suck, the benefits are getting slim, and the work environment is getting more and more hostile. Anyone who says women can't do math is wrong. They did the math, discovered it wasn't worth it, and found a different interest to pursue. Bioengineering is a growing field, and there's always demands for lawyers. Both pay well for reasonable amounts of work.
Lotus, Wordperfect, Netscape, Symantec. What do/did all these companies have in common? They wrote software that relied on Microsoft's platform. They were/are all subject to various dirty tricks by Microsoft to give Microsoft an edge over them (withholding beta versions and programming documentation until retail release of their OS, etc). These companies were so incredibly beholden to Microsoft, that when Microsoft wanted to gobble up their market, there really wasn't much they could do. Sure, they made mistakes, but so has Microsoft. The difference is that Microsoft is hypercompetitive, and will do anything to win. Sometimes that includes dirty tricks.
This is a bit OT, but does anyone else find it a little... funny... that the DOJ decided to resurrect the COPA almost immediately after it became obvious that Alito's appointment to the Supreme Court was going to happen. Isn't it just a little transparent? They could at least PRETEND that they're not just another arm of the Republican party? I don't know, maybe waiting a few months before trying this?
If you get SCSI/SAS RAID 5, strongly consider getting a controller with a battery backed cache module. First, it'll help prevent bad blocks from appearing due to power failures during write operations by retrying any writes that were pending before the power failure (drives with unreadable sectors may be kicked off the array, and you don't want that happening unnecessarily). Second, it'll also reduce the likelihood of data corruption due to a power failure, although you may not want to trust in this too heavily. A reliable UPS is very important, but mistakes happen - battery replacement indicators get missed, power failure shutdown doesn't get tested after a configuration change, cables get knocked loose, etc. If it wasn't bad enough that your server went down when it wasn't supposed to, how are you going to feel if the array is out of order, too?
There's always the old fashioned way of stealing data, too. Printing it out.
I have heard of others doing things like this, particularily for those boards affected by the dreaded CIH virus. Plenty of boards were killed by that virus when it activated and flashed the BIOS of most Intel-based (430TX/HX/FX) boards.
Don't worry, WHQL certification never stopped Microsoft from disclaiming responsibility for the drivers they ship. To be fair, it's reasonably easy to add code to a driver that is turned off during testing (via a registry key, for example), and is turned on in the shipping driver via the driver installer. WHQL certification is only slightly less useless than no certification.
There are limitations on this, of course. If you write a paper in a biology course about 'Intelligent Design' and why evolution is wrong, don't be surprised if you get a failing mark (you're not in theology class). If you're asked to write a paper on Russian culture, and spend the entire paper ranting about communism, don't be surprised with a failing mark (you didn't do the assignment). If the paper is on the politics of abortion, you should be graded fairly regardless of if you're pro-abortion or anti-abortion. If you're asked to write a paper on the current war in Iraq, you should be fairly graded regardless of if you're anti-war or pro-war.
This nonsense, on the other hand, is probably just a bunch of folks who miss McCarthyism, and have this vague suspicion that there are still communists in the education system that need to be harassed. The sooner both liberals and conservatives get out of this "I don't want to hear anything I don't agree with" mode, the better off we'll all be.
You appear to be lost. You might want to try this story instead.
Not to worry, the "educational video" Hells Bells is coming out on DVD. A sequel was apparently made, too. Now an entire new generation can learn of the evils of rock and roll music. Too bad most kids are too smart to take that nonsense seriously.
It's possible to make an intelligent decision using these numbers, but only if you know how to compare them, and what they mean.
RISC and CISC are both dead. RISC CPUs picked up SIMD instructions, and various other CISC-like designs, and CISC CPUs picked up pipelining, superscalar execution units, etc. The only people who should really care about RISC versus CISC these days are marketing departments, because the actual designed features of the chips have converged, rather than diverged.
We don't need any more students expelled for carrying a dangerous plastic butter knife into a school. Zero tolerance is replacing a human's judgement with a hard set of rules, and it really doesn't benefit anyone.
Or it could simply be the fact there were very, very few "must have" games released in 2005. I can't think of one game I wanted to rush out and purchase in the last twelve months (hard to think of any I wanted to download, either). But, of course, that can't be the reason. Nope, must be piracy.
I'm not an EE (and only have the absolute basic knowledge of electronics), so I can't really meaningfully elaborate further.
The Power PC port of WinNT wasn't for Macintoshes. It was for Motorola and IBM workstations and servers. I don't think it was possible to boot Windows NT on a Macintosh, if for no other reason than the Apple firmware didn't understand anything but the Apple partition structure.
No, it's not because of copyright concerns. It's the fact the MP3 codec is patented by Fraunhofer IIS. Fraunhofer has said they allow people to use implement the playback portions of their patents as long as the resulting program is distributed for free, but this isn't OSI compatible. The free WinAMP player was okay, putting it on a Debian CD which may be sold was not.
Don't worry, he's not on the board. He simply bought a single share. That might get him the opportunity to ask a question during the shareholder's meeting.
Certainly, Sony would like to leverage the PS3 to promote the market penetration of Blu-ray players over HD-DVD, but it's foolish to think that's the only reason why such a drive would be going into the PS3.
$1,800 sounds more like the price of a blu-ray recorder, and perhaps that's a little cheap for an introductory price for a BD recorder (I would expect $5,000 to $3,000). $1,800 for a high-end DVD player with a different laser is a bit high. $1,800 for a DVD-recorder with a different laser isn't.
I won't be surprised. Same thing happened with the Xbox 360. The great thing is that since Sony is so tight-lippped about certain aspects of the PS3, there's plenty of things to gossip about!
In other words, it's just corporate welfare. Free money, for which no public benefit is expected, given in the vague hope that it'll help employ some more people or something. Why am I not surprised?
A couple nits. The standard versions of Windows 2000 and 2003 indeed can only handle 4GB of memory at maximum. The Windows 2000 Advanced server, or Windows 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter edition can handle up to 64GB of RAM via PAE. Each application is limited to 2GB on any edition, unless the /3GB switch is used for the kernel, in which case, the maximum addressable application space increases to 3GB, and the maximum RAM decreases to 16GB. An EMS-like system (for those who remember writing programs in DOS) exists for accessing RAM outside the limits of the normal 2GB or 3GB address space allowed for applications.