It's only because these same people fail to understand demand paged virtual memory and modern disk caching policies. That, and they can't comprehend the output of top or ps.
I don't really think Afterstep is even in the same class as Windowmaker. WM is for GNUstep, which is a mostly finished reimplentation of Openstep, tracking OS X, and Afterstep looks and feels like a Nextstep themed window manager / utility app. It's graphichs system isn't necessarily more advanced and powerfull(sic) than WM, ceratinly not with Display Ghostscript installed (do you claim to have outdone Postscript after almost 20 years? on the screen and on paper?).
Actually, Mail.app came out LONG before windows 95 even. It has been a standard Nextstep (and Openstep, Rhapsody, and OS X) application since the beginning*. The web was also invented on this platform.
Yes, it too is a bad picture. It's tiny, highly compressed, and there is considreable loss of values in the lower zones - zones 0-2 are effectively the same. I would expect National Geographic to acquire better photos through time. They'll probably show up n print, though, and not as huge.tiff files on the NGS site.
If IBM were serious about addressing the real problems with Linux, it would offer full customer indemnification and move away from the GPL license.
This is the part of it all that gets the conspiracy nut in me going. Maybe the partnerships with MS and Sun and others is about destruction of the GPL, and not about IBM in particular. They're trying to fool you with forked tongues. MS, and many others, would have you believe that an EULA (which the GPL is NOT) offers you some sort of agreeable advantage over the GPL. You, the user, get nothing by agreeing to an EULA. You are getting a list of restrictions to what you can do with it, and what action you can take against the company if anything goes wrong (none). Most software licenses even include an act-of-god clause, which in my opinion isn't legally testable at all.
1) Why use apple hardware? I thought I've been hearing how intel platforms are cheaper and as godd as/better than apple/sun/hp/your-non-intel-hardware-vendor-here. If, say, Dell or HP can offer a rack with more bang for the buck than apple, why choose Apple?
People like to talk about how their frankenstein computer is better than the Mac they secretly lust for, but that in no way proves that PCs are better. Intel systems certainly aren't always cheaper, and are seldom better than their 'real' computer brethren. Dell and HP can't really offer a rack with as much bang for the buck as Apple. Prices for similarly configured servers (high-end ones) show Apple a fair bit cheaper. The Xserve also includes an unlimited-client OS X Server license. This is something that costs mucho bananas on any other Unix or Windows platform (excluding *BSD/Linux). The superior Altivec unit may have something to do with their decision as well.
2) Given that Apple has been chosen, what's wrong with OS X? Isn't OS X supposed to be optimised for graphics performance? My understanding is that even the desktop uses the 3D hardware to draw itself. Wouldn't the Navy benefit from the hardware/OS X integration?
I bet they'll use OS X. Maybe they have a special Linux cooked up with a suite of Unix apps, and will be using the computers in less of a user / desktop way and more like an instrument.
There are a bunch of small research vessels which may not show in the official inventory. Atomic powered and everything for 'oceanography' (spying). It's possible that these machines will be going into some of our smaller, more stealthy machines (which also tend to be unarmed).
Yeah, AAC 96 with the Quicktime encoder is brilliant. I ripped a group of CDs at 320, 192, 160, 128, 112, 96, 64, 40, and 16 and the sound stayed together remarkably well even at 64. Below 80 there was a definite quality drop, but you have to be kind of anal about audio to hear it at 80. 64 sounds like FM radio.
I just wanted to find the threshold at which it still sounded like the CD. For my setups 96 held great. Again, this is with iTunes and the QT AAC encoder, YMMV, IANAL, etc.
My TV is about a decade old, too. I have, after careful consideration, determined that an LCD projector (2500+ Lumens) seems to be the best long-term, easily transportable choice. Has anyone deployed an LCD projector (or DMD) as their TV? How is it? Did you use a screen or the wall?
(On an entirely different note, has anyone besides me noticed that the quality of Slashdot moderation has degraded over the last year or so? I haven't been "assigned" mod points since the great move West, but I know I used to do a better job than what passes for moderation these days. The mod system needs something way much more effective than the current M2 system which does absolutely nothing. I mean, we're talking about something fundamental as the speed of sound.)
DOn't kid yourself. For every WMA track out there there are a hundred MP3's. More. Inevitably, when somebody finds out that they've been ripping their tunes into WMA, they realize their grave error and start over.
For me, AAC 96 seems to do it just fine on my klipsch monitors, ns10's, and various headphones.
Jeez, it's not like the EU is taking on some first-offender. They are dealing with an entity that flaunts the law. Here in America, it's OK to flaunt the law if you have money or political clout, but apparently some trade ministers actually have balls. It's refreshing to see. I don't expect them to soften the blow because this is an American company. I expect the blow to be more crushing than before simply because MS has repeatedly flaunted the law, both in the US, in the EU, and undoubtedly elsewhere.
This isn't some bunch of career politicians making gestures at each other. This is the European government taking on an aggressive, foreign barbarian. They (the EU) have already in the past fired several warning shots over the MS bow, now it's time to aim for the engines.
Aside from that, it's clear that the governments of the EU are embracing Linux and becoming more and more mistrustful of that crazy old Microsoft. What we shall see, if the net effect of all these actions is to completely level the playing field, is a likely renaissance in European software. I for one look foreword to it.
Maybe you are a little ignorant of our fair land, but in Utah an option for the death penalty is still the firing squad. So, if I were convicted of a crime punishable by death in utah, your comment would be true. The same could be said of you.
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It's only because these same people fail to understand demand paged virtual memory and modern disk caching policies. That, and they can't comprehend the output of top or ps.
Really, people,
45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping
CPU states: 6.2% user, 0.0% nice, 3.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 89.9% idle
Mem: 67M Active, 160M Inact, 83M Wired, 348K Cache, 73M Buf, 312M Free
Swap: 1044M Total, 1044M Free
isn't that hard to understand.
iDesk. When you need a window manager that's just BARELY a window manager, that's your choice.
At least, now that they're updating Afterstep.
Its much more flexible then WM
I don't really think Afterstep is even in the same class as Windowmaker. WM is for GNUstep, which is a mostly finished reimplentation of Openstep, tracking OS X, and Afterstep looks and feels like a Nextstep themed window manager / utility app. It's graphichs system isn't necessarily more advanced and powerfull(sic) than WM, ceratinly not with Display Ghostscript installed (do you claim to have outdone Postscript after almost 20 years? on the screen and on paper?).
Actually, Mail.app came out LONG before windows 95 even. It has been a standard Nextstep (and Openstep, Rhapsody, and OS X) application since the beginning*. The web was also invented on this platform.
*1988
Yes, it too is a bad picture. It's tiny, highly compressed, and there is considreable loss of values in the lower zones - zones 0-2 are effectively the same. I would expect National Geographic to acquire better photos through time. They'll probably show up n print, though, and not as huge .tiff files on the NGS site.
You obviously haven't ever spent time in the woods, have you?
It's a hunter's trick. It's called 'calling animals' and people have been doing it for a very long time.
I'm sorry, but a zombie process never runs, and thus can't 'eat other processes' like you claim.
If IBM were serious about addressing the real problems with Linux, it would offer full customer indemnification and move away from the GPL license.
This is the part of it all that gets the conspiracy nut in me going. Maybe the partnerships with MS and Sun and others is about destruction of the GPL, and not about IBM in particular. They're trying to fool you with forked tongues. MS, and many others, would have you believe that an EULA (which the GPL is NOT) offers you some sort of agreeable advantage over the GPL. You, the user, get nothing by agreeing to an EULA. You are getting a list of restrictions to what you can do with it, and what action you can take against the company if anything goes wrong (none). Most software licenses even include an act-of-god clause, which in my opinion isn't legally testable at all.
1) Why use apple hardware? I thought I've been hearing how intel platforms are cheaper and as godd as/better than apple/sun/hp/your-non-intel-hardware-vendor-here. If, say, Dell or HP can offer a rack with more bang for the buck than apple, why choose Apple?
People like to talk about how their frankenstein computer is better than the Mac they secretly lust for, but that in no way proves that PCs are better. Intel systems certainly aren't always cheaper, and are seldom better than their 'real' computer brethren. Dell and HP can't really offer a rack with as much bang for the buck as Apple. Prices for similarly configured servers (high-end ones) show Apple a fair bit cheaper. The Xserve also includes an unlimited-client OS X Server license. This is something that costs mucho bananas on any other Unix or Windows platform (excluding *BSD/Linux). The superior Altivec unit may have something to do with their decision as well.
2) Given that Apple has been chosen, what's wrong with OS X? Isn't OS X supposed to be optimised for graphics performance? My understanding is that even the desktop uses the 3D hardware to draw itself. Wouldn't the Navy benefit from the hardware/OS X integration?
I bet they'll use OS X. Maybe they have a special Linux cooked up with a suite of Unix apps, and will be using the computers in less of a user / desktop way and more like an instrument.
The Iowa herself serves as the only of her class.
There are a bunch of small research vessels which may not show in the official inventory. Atomic powered and everything for 'oceanography' (spying). It's possible that these machines will be going into some of our smaller, more stealthy machines (which also tend to be unarmed).
You've never been inside a real sub, have you? Just so you know, the sound level approaches 100dB in the engine room. Even in a nuc.
Yeah, AAC 96 with the Quicktime encoder is brilliant. I ripped a group of CDs at 320, 192, 160, 128, 112, 96, 64, 40, and 16 and the sound stayed together remarkably well even at 64. Below 80 there was a definite quality drop, but you have to be kind of anal about audio to hear it at 80. 64 sounds like FM radio.
I just wanted to find the threshold at which it still sounded like the CD. For my setups 96 held great. Again, this is with iTunes and the QT AAC encoder, YMMV, IANAL, etc.
My TV is about a decade old, too. I have, after careful consideration, determined that an LCD projector (2500+ Lumens) seems to be the best long-term, easily transportable choice. Has anyone deployed an LCD projector (or DMD) as their TV? How is it? Did you use a screen or the wall?
sike
It's actually psych
(On an entirely different note, has anyone besides me noticed that the quality of Slashdot moderation has degraded over the last year or so? I haven't been "assigned" mod points since the great move West, but I know I used to do a better job than what passes for moderation these days. The mod system needs something way much more effective than the current M2 system which does absolutely nothing. I mean, we're talking about something fundamental as the speed of sound.)
ME TOO
Several smaller chutes that break away, or deploy successively larger chutes over time / velocity.
I can think of several ways to do it right on top of my head.
DOn't kid yourself. For every WMA track out there there are a hundred MP3's. More. Inevitably, when somebody finds out that they've been ripping their tunes into WMA, they realize their grave error and start over.
For me, AAC 96 seems to do it just fine on my klipsch monitors, ns10's, and various headphones.
Jeez, it's not like the EU is taking on some first-offender. They are dealing with an entity that flaunts the law. Here in America, it's OK to flaunt the law if you have money or political clout, but apparently some trade ministers actually have balls. It's refreshing to see. I don't expect them to soften the blow because this is an American company. I expect the blow to be more crushing than before simply because MS has repeatedly flaunted the law, both in the US, in the EU, and undoubtedly elsewhere.
This isn't some bunch of career politicians making gestures at each other. This is the European government taking on an aggressive, foreign barbarian. They (the EU) have already in the past fired several warning shots over the MS bow, now it's time to aim for the engines.
Aside from that, it's clear that the governments of the EU are embracing Linux and becoming more and more mistrustful of that crazy old Microsoft. What we shall see, if the net effect of all these actions is to completely level the playing field, is a likely renaissance in European software. I for one look foreword to it.
Maybe you are a little ignorant of our fair land, but in Utah an option for the death penalty is still the firing squad. So, if I were convicted of a crime punishable by death in utah, your comment would be true. The same could be said of you.
Easycalc's pretty buggy still. I used it for a while and it just wasn't right (esp. w/ complex numbers).
I know. I enjoy U7 on my Macintosh. Exult is a beautiful thing indeed.
In terms of sheer depth, scope, variety, and detail U7 is still king in my mind. The ability to do almost anything silly makes me so happy.
For example life imprisonment costs less than executing them
.30-06 rounds (NATO ball) cost about 5 bucks.
Not in Utah it doesn't. Last time I checked a dozen
Considering this is a fly-by-wire bird, if I were piloting this thing I'd be nervous rebooting in TLF.
(TLF = totally level flight)