While the press release doesnt make this terribly clear, I think it may be that this applciations automatically processes all image data and adjusts as needed before it sends it out to the monitor. So i a way its an image 'normalizer', like how you have audio normalizer that make all sounds have about the same volume. This actually would make sense (if its what I think it is), because this would, for example, mean that all your photos 'look good' without an touching up, all your homemovies dito, and dito the rest.
Not a bad idea, if this is the idea.
'We' just want a 'faster' computer. The salesman or tech support can find out how you can make it faster. We've been brought up in a base10 mindset. Arbitrary as that may be (actually, it's not, but you need to be a mathmatician to know exactly why), it means I could care less about the internal workings of a modern day computer. I think in base10 and the whole idea of a computer is that it can do arithmetic for you.
Also, hard drive manufacturers have nothing to do with power of 2: they just make sure they can fit so many bits on a square cm, and there's no reason that that number should be a power of 2.
The thing is that IT-people and Computer Scientists have this uncanny drive to keep talking of and thinking in powers of two, insisting on starting the counting with 0 and generally don't care about the long standing conventions there already were in the rest of the world. k=1000, M=1000000, etc, period. If you insist on using rediculous numbers like 1024, 1048576, etc, you're gonna use your own damn prefixes for them. No hijacking please.
No, but in case the closed source fork is more to a specific users liking (which is very probable), it'll limit that users freedom. With GPL-licenses there's no risk like that, and I think that a pretty good argument for GPL-style licenses and against BSD-style licenses.
So, just so I understand you correctly: you're arguing that BSD-style licenses are the most free of them all?
I think everyone will agree on that, but it also has some obvious pitfalls that affect a users freedom negatively in the end.
OpenOffice is germna btw, the former StarOffice.
Then again, contributions for all those projects come from all over te world, so why would the instigator of the project dictate the nationality of the project?
If they manufactury it sanely, the SD card will be a USB connector. I've seen those cards, pretty smart. One side is de SD connectors, and on top are the four USB-strips. No sleeves needed. Then again, Sandisk makes money by manufacturing these things, and more plastic is more money I guess...
If you're going to throw specs around, please make sure you've got the right ones: CD's are ALWAYS (not generally) 44.1KHz 16bit PCM audio.
If those cards are a GB large, then fitting a lossless copy of the CD with FLAC on there shouldn't be too difficult (this shrink the CD down from ~650MB to ~300-400MB, worst case scenario ~500MB).
And those of you requesting 192KHz 24bit resolution, please do the calculation and find out you'll need a lot more space that way and please do the ABX and find out that, apart from some killers samples and some killer ears, you're never going to hear the difference with a normal CD.
It's also DRM like how any modern multi-user operating system manages rights to computer resources. You can copy the game fine, nothing is protecting the game from being copied. You just can't play without a valid key.
Between requiring a key and requiring a key + installing rootkits/drivers + requiring a CD inserted into the computer is a world of difference.
Jeebus H Christ, on an article about Vista promotions the first 30 first 30 or so posts are nitpicking about weed. Priorities people!/First/ Vista bashing,/then/ back to smoking pot!
And this is where it gets interesting: America belongs to the Indians too. And they were there first, right? And New York belongs to the Netherlands, because they were first, right? And why does California not belong solely to the Californians? And Texas to the Texans? And Miami to the Miami-ans? And why don't I have my very own country, the size of my house?
It just doesn't work this way, and with Russia funding the seperatists, just because they can't stand they lost the territory themselves in the first place, is just pathetic and absolutely wrong. How is this Russian invasion about Ossetia anyway? It's about the paychecks of a few jobless Ossetians with short dicks, and with Putin and his equally short dick.
Astrophysicisists, on the topic of Dark Matter, use Hot, Warm, or Cold Dark Matter to refer to fundamentally different models, in which the Hot/Warm/Cold refers to the average velocity the Dark Matter particles have. For structure (like 'star'-systems) to be gravitationally bound, the average velocities of its member particles can't be above some threshold (something like the escape velocity of the system or clump), otherwise they just fly away. Cold Dark Matter is therefore the stuff that actually can clump together.
As a scientist you should know that there only are hypotheses. All you can do is find evidence or create tests that agree of disagree with a hyptothesis. As a bachelor student in a world renowned astrophysical institution, I started out as a sceptic (and still am). There are two branches of physics that sort of require the existence of dark matter. One is the theoretical side of astrophysics: the universe appears to require extra matter (and energy, which may well be vacuumenergy from particle physics) to hold the universe together. The other is observational evidence of the sort that there are clusters of stars which could be bound (=exist) with the visible matter we detect). Especially the Bulletcluster (use your google-fu) is a very convincing example of where dark matter would fill the gaps very neatly. It's certainly true that there are other hypotheses (the so called Dark Matter be very well be large number of small and very faint ordinary star systems, which is a hypothesis which I personaly suspect can bring us a long way to solving these lack-of-mass problems).
The book "Galactic Dynamics" by Binney and Tremaine offers far more and better explanations of the reasons for Dark Matter.
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While the press release doesnt make this terribly clear, I think it may be that this applciations automatically processes all image data and adjusts as needed before it sends it out to the monitor. So i a way its an image 'normalizer', like how you have audio normalizer that make all sounds have about the same volume. This actually would make sense (if its what I think it is), because this would, for example, mean that all your photos 'look good' without an touching up, all your homemovies dito, and dito the rest. Not a bad idea, if this is the idea.
Or both.
I always feel like... somebody's watching me.
I believe the eeepc comes with Xandros, I don't know what comes with Suse (perhaps MSI or Medion, also German?).
I can:
In Soviet Russia, you don't care that Gimp developers think YOU!
Real Dolls don't need any power.
'We' just want a 'faster' computer. The salesman or tech support can find out how you can make it faster. We've been brought up in a base10 mindset. Arbitrary as that may be (actually, it's not, but you need to be a mathmatician to know exactly why), it means I could care less about the internal workings of a modern day computer. I think in base10 and the whole idea of a computer is that it can do arithmetic for you. Also, hard drive manufacturers have nothing to do with power of 2: they just make sure they can fit so many bits on a square cm, and there's no reason that that number should be a power of 2.
The thing is that IT-people and Computer Scientists have this uncanny drive to keep talking of and thinking in powers of two, insisting on starting the counting with 0 and generally don't care about the long standing conventions there already were in the rest of the world. k=1000, M=1000000, etc, period. If you insist on using rediculous numbers like 1024, 1048576, etc, you're gonna use your own damn prefixes for them. No hijacking please.
No, but in case the closed source fork is more to a specific users liking (which is very probable), it'll limit that users freedom. With GPL-licenses there's no risk like that, and I think that a pretty good argument for GPL-style licenses and against BSD-style licenses.
So, just so I understand you correctly: you're arguing that BSD-style licenses are the most free of them all? I think everyone will agree on that, but it also has some obvious pitfalls that affect a users freedom negatively in the end.
Interesting that you speak of a service pack that doesn't exist yet in the past tense. Is this post a proof of timetravel?
That's still possible, you just cant use the works from others that release code under a license that explicitly prohibit that.
OpenOffice is germna btw, the former StarOffice. Then again, contributions for all those projects come from all over te world, so why would the instigator of the project dictate the nationality of the project?
If they manufactury it sanely, the SD card will be a USB connector. I've seen those cards, pretty smart. One side is de SD connectors, and on top are the four USB-strips. No sleeves needed. Then again, Sandisk makes money by manufacturing these things, and more plastic is more money I guess...
If you're going to throw specs around, please make sure you've got the right ones: CD's are ALWAYS (not generally) 44.1KHz 16bit PCM audio. If those cards are a GB large, then fitting a lossless copy of the CD with FLAC on there shouldn't be too difficult (this shrink the CD down from ~650MB to ~300-400MB, worst case scenario ~500MB). And those of you requesting 192KHz 24bit resolution, please do the calculation and find out you'll need a lot more space that way and please do the ABX and find out that, apart from some killers samples and some killer ears, you're never going to hear the difference with a normal CD.
Euh, the XBOX 360 is $199, how wouldn't it be interesting if you could run an HD capable XBMC on there?
It's also DRM like how any modern multi-user operating system manages rights to computer resources. You can copy the game fine, nothing is protecting the game from being copied. You just can't play without a valid key. Between requiring a key and requiring a key + installing rootkits/drivers + requiring a CD inserted into the computer is a world of difference.
Jeebus H Christ, on an article about Vista promotions the first 30 first 30 or so posts are nitpicking about weed. Priorities people! /First/ Vista bashing, /then/ back to smoking pot!
Are you Alex Jones?
It does so perfectly for my Ubuntu Virtual machine.
So, Linux is an alien operating system? Is that cool or just outright creepy? I for one (don't) welcome our alien Finnish overlords, or something.
And this is where it gets interesting: America belongs to the Indians too. And they were there first, right? And New York belongs to the Netherlands, because they were first, right? And why does California not belong solely to the Californians? And Texas to the Texans? And Miami to the Miami-ans? And why don't I have my very own country, the size of my house? It just doesn't work this way, and with Russia funding the seperatists, just because they can't stand they lost the territory themselves in the first place, is just pathetic and absolutely wrong. How is this Russian invasion about Ossetia anyway? It's about the paychecks of a few jobless Ossetians with short dicks, and with Putin and his equally short dick.
Astrophysicisists, on the topic of Dark Matter, use Hot, Warm, or Cold Dark Matter to refer to fundamentally different models, in which the Hot/Warm/Cold refers to the average velocity the Dark Matter particles have. For structure (like 'star'-systems) to be gravitationally bound, the average velocities of its member particles can't be above some threshold (something like the escape velocity of the system or clump), otherwise they just fly away. Cold Dark Matter is therefore the stuff that actually can clump together.
As a scientist you should know that there only are hypotheses. All you can do is find evidence or create tests that agree of disagree with a hyptothesis. As a bachelor student in a world renowned astrophysical institution, I started out as a sceptic (and still am). There are two branches of physics that sort of require the existence of dark matter. One is the theoretical side of astrophysics: the universe appears to require extra matter (and energy, which may well be vacuumenergy from particle physics) to hold the universe together. The other is observational evidence of the sort that there are clusters of stars which could be bound (=exist) with the visible matter we detect). Especially the Bulletcluster (use your google-fu) is a very convincing example of where dark matter would fill the gaps very neatly. It's certainly true that there are other hypotheses (the so called Dark Matter be very well be large number of small and very faint ordinary star systems, which is a hypothesis which I personaly suspect can bring us a long way to solving these lack-of-mass problems). The book "Galactic Dynamics" by Binney and Tremaine offers far more and better explanations of the reasons for Dark Matter.