Wow. You beat me to it! I was going to post a reply saying the same damn thing. When it comes to rare, unreleased games, playing MM2 is at the top of my list.
Is that where they got that from? It's one of the very best arcade controllers ever. Totally natural UI for that style of game. Apart from a very small number of Atari games, no one used it again.
Re:What happened to all those tribbles??
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Ask William Shatner
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Didn't you watch the episode? Only some of the tribbles died. The remaining thousands were beamed over to the Klingon starship by Scotty --"Where they'll be no Tr-r-ribble at all!".
Three statisticians are out hunting. A duck flies overhead. The first statistician shoots, but misses by a foot to the left. The second shoots and misses by a foot to the right. The third shouts "WE GOT HIM!".
Ok, but then couldn't you just buy yourself the same reliability (UPSes, etc) on a regular disk subsystem, and then turn off fsyncs? If you're not actually doing a real flush to disc, it's all just handwaving and hoping that the cache is reliable.
I think "virtualizing" fsyncs is just a bad conceptual idea, because you are end-running the whole purpose of their existence. Just turn them off, and tell people the reliability of write-behind caching is good enough, or do them for real.
Then if you lose power after the fsync (and SMTP acknowledgement) and before the physical write occurs, you lose data. It's the same as using write-behind caching (no fsync) on a conventional filesystem. TANSTAAFL.
Re:And you ask the /. community..
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Just One Page a Day
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I know you're joking, but in reality it doesn't matter how good your spelling is. In fact, I would imagine that any spelling errors found in the text should be reproduced intact, in the interest of accurately representing the original work. This project is about correcting OCR errors, not spelling / grammar.
I'm the same way. People don't understand why I complain whenever I go over to their machines and look at their 60hz refresh. "Flicker? What flicker?" I find it literally painful to look at.
75hz is noticeably worse than 85hz for me, but higher than that doesn't make a difference.
If you're the type that is insensitive to refresh, you can get an idea what we're talking about if you try looking at the monitor out the corner of your eye at the different refresh rates. Persistence is shorter in your peripheral vision, and flicker is exagerrated.
Nonsense. Incandescent lightbulbs don't flicker when on a regular 60hz power supply, the filament decay is too slow. Besides, perceived refresh flicker gets worse when all the room lights are off, not better.
The original J2EE version of the Petstore application was meant as an EDUCATIONAL example for those new to J2EE.... No one in their right mind would use J2EE or EJBs to implement the Petstore app.
Wrong. Pet Store was built as a demo illustrating the "best practice" implementation of J2EE. It's Sun saying "This is how you should build YOUR apps.". As such it's fair game (and the perfect choice) for platform performance comparisons.
From the site:
"The JavaTM Pet Store Demo is a sample application from the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition ("J2EETM") BluePrints Program at Java Software, Sun Microsystems. It demonstrates how to use the capabilities of the J2EE 1.3 platform to develop flexible, scalable, cross-platform enterprise applications.
The JavaTM BluePrints Program program helps developers create robust, scalable, and portable applications by providing guidelines, patterns, and code that illustrate best practices on how to build end-to-end applications using Java technology.
Re:The resolution still isn't up to par...
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LCD Round-up
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Buying a CRT now is essentially investing in obsolete technology.
Unlike LCDs, which are all easily upgradable to larger sizes, higher resolutions, and new display technologies!
If you're worried about "investing in obsolete technology", LCDs are the worse option. The industry is far more likely to dump and orphan the existing DVI spec than they are VGA, and that's about the only "investment" risk there is.
It's a catch-22. If you don't market them as "XBox mod chips", people don't know what they are and won't buy them. If you market them as "XBox mod chips", you are admitting their primary function is to mod an XBox, and will be sued since it is illegal to market them.
So advertise them as:
Motherboard extender - WARNING: THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN PLAYING BACKUP GAMES ON THE MICROSOFT XBOX(TM) GAME CONSOLE."
If that was the case, no one would be happier tha me but as far as I know an AC3 (encoded Dolby 5.1) stream (48kHz, 16bit) uses roughly around 1.5 mbs of bandwidth
AC3 streams use lossy compression. They can use as much as 640kbps, but typical DVDs use either 384 or 448 kbps.
Re:Yet more speculation running as news.
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No More Mac Tweaking?
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But the areas where things can cause instability in the OS should not be left wide open for people to change in an uncontrolled manner.
Why? These people aren't modifiying the shrink-wrapped boxes Apples sells in the store. They're modifying their own machine as they see fit.
This has nothing to do with stability. It's all about dictating to people how they can use a product they own by adding arbitrary restrictions.
Standardized controls are what makes OS X much easier for newbies to use than other operating systems.
Newbies aren't the ones doing this. Give your head a shake.
Let people change the look of their computer, but not the feel. That's the right strategy and the one apple seems to be following.
Why is it reasonable for a company to restrict the way we use the product? This isn't Apple designing a product to be consistent, this is Apple locking down an existing product that people are using is a way that they didn't anticipate, because the creativity these users are demonstrating angers them.
"Think Different" indeed. Try "Think the way we want you to think.".
with lens photography there is infinate amount of raw data
Ah, the classic fool's argument for analog over digital. It's the same one that the vinyl audiophiles make. "There's no digital quantization, so the data is infinite."
Wrong. It doesn't matter if your medium can store an infinite range of values if the data is drowned in noise. So while there is indeed an "infinite amount of data" stored in the arrangement of molecules in an analog medium, most of it has nothing to do with what you were trying to capture, and hence isn't really data in this context.
The error induced by emulsion quality, development processes, printing processes, etc. is every bit as real as that caused by the quantization of a digital capture device.
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So, they took the inverse of the set of good TNG actors. Wonderful.
Do you mean declutching and "gliding" for a bit in midair, or actually landing with no power? Is it that reliable a maneouver?
The asshat still has the advisory up on his web site too. The extent of his utter cluelessness is astonishing.
Wow. You beat me to it! I was going to post a reply saying the same damn thing. When it comes to rare, unreleased games, playing MM2 is at the top of my list.
Is that where they got that from? It's one of the very best arcade controllers ever. Totally natural UI for that style of game. Apart from a very small number of Atari games, no one used it again.
Didn't you watch the episode? Only some of the tribbles died. The remaining thousands were beamed over to the Klingon starship by Scotty --"Where they'll be no Tr-r-ribble at all!".
No, a prime is any number whose only divisors are 1 and itself. Those divisors need not be distinct.
Three statisticians are out hunting. A duck flies overhead. The first statistician shoots, but misses by a foot to the left. The second shoots and misses by a foot to the right. The third shouts "WE GOT HIM!".
To get to the same side!
I think "virtualizing" fsyncs is just a bad conceptual idea, because you are end-running the whole purpose of their existence. Just turn them off, and tell people the reliability of write-behind caching is good enough, or do them for real.
Then if you lose power after the fsync (and SMTP acknowledgement) and before the physical write occurs, you lose data. It's the same as using write-behind caching (no fsync) on a conventional filesystem. TANSTAAFL.
I know you're joking, but in reality it doesn't matter how good your spelling is. In fact, I would imagine that any spelling errors found in the text should be reproduced intact, in the interest of accurately representing the original work. This project is about correcting OCR errors, not spelling / grammar.
75hz is noticeably worse than 85hz for me, but higher than that doesn't make a difference.
If you're the type that is insensitive to refresh, you can get an idea what we're talking about if you try looking at the monitor out the corner of your eye at the different refresh rates. Persistence is shorter in your peripheral vision, and flicker is exagerrated.
Nonsense. Incandescent lightbulbs don't flicker when on a regular 60hz power supply, the filament decay is too slow. Besides, perceived refresh flicker gets worse when all the room lights are off, not better.
Wrong. Pet Store was built as a demo illustrating the "best practice" implementation of J2EE. It's Sun saying "This is how you should build YOUR apps.". As such it's fair game (and the perfect choice) for platform performance comparisons.
From the site:
"The JavaTM Pet Store Demo is a sample application from the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition ("J2EETM") BluePrints Program at Java Software, Sun Microsystems. It demonstrates how to use the capabilities of the J2EE 1.3 platform to develop flexible, scalable, cross-platform enterprise applications.
The JavaTM BluePrints Program program helps developers create robust, scalable, and portable applications by providing guidelines, patterns, and code that illustrate best practices on how to build end-to-end applications using Java technology.
Unlike LCDs, which are all easily upgradable to larger sizes, higher resolutions, and new display technologies!
If you're worried about "investing in obsolete technology", LCDs are the worse option. The industry is far more likely to dump and orphan the existing DVI spec than they are VGA, and that's about the only "investment" risk there is.
So advertise them as:
Motherboard extender - WARNING: THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN PLAYING BACKUP GAMES ON THE MICROSOFT XBOX(TM) GAME CONSOLE."
Sorry, here's your reference.
AC3 streams use lossy compression. They can use as much as 640kbps, but typical DVDs use either 384 or 448 kbps.
Why? These people aren't modifiying the shrink-wrapped boxes Apples sells in the store. They're modifying their own machine as they see fit.
This has nothing to do with stability. It's all about dictating to people how they can use a product they own by adding arbitrary restrictions.
Standardized controls are what makes OS X much easier for newbies to use than other operating systems.
Newbies aren't the ones doing this. Give your head a shake.
Let people change the look of their computer, but not the feel. That's the right strategy and the one apple seems to be following.
Why is it reasonable for a company to restrict the way we use the product? This isn't Apple designing a product to be consistent, this is Apple locking down an existing product that people are using is a way that they didn't anticipate, because the creativity these users are demonstrating angers them.
"Think Different" indeed. Try "Think the way we want you to think.".
With very few exceptions, the value of a programming book is inversely proportional to it's size.
e.g. K&R C, vs. "Unleashing C in 21 days for idiots."
I thought it was the best part of the whole show. Anti-star-trek indeed.
That doesn't mean his current car is worth that much.
Ah, the classic fool's argument for analog over digital. It's the same one that the vinyl audiophiles make. "There's no digital quantization, so the data is infinite."
Wrong. It doesn't matter if your medium can store an infinite range of values if the data is drowned in noise. So while there is indeed an "infinite amount of data" stored in the arrangement of molecules in an analog medium, most of it has nothing to do with what you were trying to capture, and hence isn't really data in this context.
The error induced by emulsion quality, development processes, printing processes, etc. is every bit as real as that caused by the quantization of a digital capture device.
I guess the reconditioning is to mint condition, because you can buy old Deloreans for less than $10K.