All you have to do is run some benchmarks to prove [that the Athlon is faster clock for clock than the P4].
In that case, Microsoft SQL and Oracle are infinitely slower than MySQL and PostgreSQL because I can't even get past the stupid EULAs that make me promise I won't release benchmark results to the general public. Watch for Intel to start pulling the same sh*t when the AMD Opteron trounces both the Pentium 5 and the Itanic.
Georgia is a serif font and Andale Mono is a fixed-width font based on a sans-serif typeface, there are no mostly-sans font types.
Some fixed-width sans-serif typefaces such as Lucida Typewriter (called Lucida Console on Windows) have serifs on the 'I', 'J' 'i', 'j', and 'l' glyphs.
Fixed-width fonts... are not very good modern on-screen fonts as many of the parameters the fixed-width fonts were designed to solve are no longer an issue.
Do you claim that the unavailablity of <table> tags for tabular information (not for layout) in the subsets of HTML used by Slashdot, Kuro5hin, and Everything2 is "no longer an issue"? And why does Mozilla still display the <textarea> into which I type this comment in a fixed-width font?
Fixed-width fonts have NEVER been good for print.
Fixed-width fonts were good for print even before Gutenberg reinvented movable type. Chinese, the language of the first inventors of printing, is typically printed with a fixed-width font. So is Korean.
OTOH, I don't see what stops [Debian from] throwing the [Microsoft Typography] fonts into nonfree...
Microsoft's license stipulates that redistribution over a computer network must preserve the file names at the file transfer protocol (FTP, HTTP, SMB, etc) level, but the Debian non-free repository does not accept.exe files.
It may be free in some areas outside the United States of America, but until U.S. Patent 5,155,805 expires on October 13, 2009, some important parts of TrueType technology are not free in the U.S. or in countries that have signed mutual patent recognition treaties with the U.S.
Besides, the particular fonts in question are probably copyrighted until 70 years after the death of the designers who worked on those fonts. A typeface cannot be copyrighted, but a hinting program (there's usually one in every TTF) can.
PFAEdit is a sophisticated graphical editor for designing and editing Postscript fonts.
I looked in to PFAEdit and saw that it required Cygwin and XFree86. I could never get Cygwin and XFree86 to work on my Windows laptop, even after Reading The F[...] Manual. Thus, PFAEdit as it exists at the time of this writing is useless to Windows users such as myself who have not been able to successfully configure Cygwin and XFree86.
If anybody is willing to help me get Cygwin running, he or she should send private e-mail to tepples at spamcop dot net. However, note that when I could not get Cygwin to work, I deleted it to make room for school related files, and until September 2, I will be stuck behind dial-up access to the Internet and unable to stay on the phone long enough to download the latest version of Cygwin.
If such a bug causes loss of data or compromise of private information, and the story hits Com.com or one of the other tech news sites, and the product does not have a monopoly in the product space, you bet the IT people will do their best to avoid such a product for new installations.
In the case of libmysql (C native-interface library of MySQL), developers are forced to pay so much money for using GPL code(libmysql) in their software as non-GPL state, plus their customers have to pay money for commercial-licensed MySQL server.
Whereas NT/2K/XP, SQLServer, ASP.Net, Java, C#,.Net, XML, HTML 4, etc., are Unicode to the bone, the last I checked poor PHP and MySQL were both still stuck in the legacy world of regional character encodings.
Have you tried using UTF-8, an encoding of a sequence of Unicode characters into a sequence of 8-bit bytes, with your PHP/MySQL design?
I can't believe how many people in think that just because you have an excessively large music collection you stole it.
I didn't assume that. Rather, my mistake was to assume that nobody had a CD collection five times larger than the largest CD collection in my circle of friends. I guess I have a lot to learn.
As soon as you hook an 'MP3 Player' up to a quality playback system (somthing better than your PC speakers)
What makes you think that my sound card isn't plugged into a medium-high-end receiver and speakers?
it become obvious that it's 'way worse' not 'way better.'
NO. Tests performed by r3mix show that 192 kbps LAME encoded audio is transparent to the human ear. Your concept of "mp3" seems to be stuck at "128 kbps encoded with MusicTrash Jukebox".
lossy:
Conversion of the original analog sounds into 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit linear PCM is itself lossy. Even conversion into 2.8 MHz stereo 1-bit PCM (Sony Super Audio CD) is lossy. It's a matter of how much loss you are willing to accept. For instance, the median *NSYNC fan wouldn't care if her copy of her favorite song was 64 kbps mono MP3.
But remember, it doesn't need to keep a copy of the operating system and applications on the same drive, so you gain 5-10 GB right there vs. a PC solution.
Anyway, how many CDs do you have? At 192,000 bits per second (which has been shown to be transparent for stereo audio, even on good speakers), 20 metric GB equals 160 billion bits equals 833,333 seconds, or 231 hours. Assuming each CD is one hour long, I infer that you must have a huge collection. How big is it?
I never noticed the lack of USB support [in Windows 95 and Windows 98] because the only computers I've run 95 & 98 on didn't have USB ports.
Did they have hard disk drives bigger than 2 GB? FAT16 supports only up to 65,525 clusters. Windows 95 retail supports only the FAT16 file system for fixed disks, and Windows 9x's implementation of FAT16 has a maximum cluster size of 32 KB, giving a 2 GB maximum filesystem size.
You think every corporation using Microsoft software is bound by their consumer licenses?
Yes. If not when they install the software, they become bound by the standard Microsoft EULA once they install any patches from Windows Update. Such EULA contains terms like "You may not disclose benchmark results of the.NET framework to a third party. For example, if you make a video game using the.NET framework, you may not include a frames-per-second indicator."
I could never tell a difference b/w Win95 w/ IE 4.0 and Win98.
Unlike Windows 98, retail Windows 95 did not support USB nor FAT32. Windows 95 OSR2 supported FAT32 and introduced rudimentary USB support, but Microsoft did not release a retail version of OSR2 and in fact cracked down on computer stores that sold copies.
This runs against my prime directive - never to connect to the internet under the influence of Redmond binaries.
I didn't know you hated Nintendo that much. Nintendo's USA headquarters is located in Redmond, WA, not too far from One Microsoft Way. For a while, back in the Windows 3.1 days, they were working together on a legit emulator called (get this) "Wintendo".
While the new code might be better (like in the case of Microsoft's Java, back in those days), it will mean that the term "Java" would no longer mean just one thing
The source code license on Sun's implementation of the Java(TM) platform has nothing to do with rights to use the Java Compatible(TM) mark, which are covered under a separate trademark license agreement.
Wouldn't it be amazing if campaign finance contributions could only come from valid, registered voters?
I've already found a loophole in that law. Disney Employment Contract 2004: "The Walt Disney Company ("Disney") shall issue You a $1,000 check ("Lobby Check") every Labor Day (first Monday in September). You shall deposit the Lobby Check in your bank account and shall donate $1,000 annually to your representative's re-election campaign. You agree not to use the Lobby Check for any other purpose. You further agree to contact your Representative and Senators at least four times per year, urging them to adopt copyright, patent, and trademark legislation that favor Disney and other owners of copyrights, patents, and trademarks."
However, I see something even worse going on: a violation of the FCC's "equal time" rule. In the United States, as part of the bargain for a monopoly on the use of a particular broadcast frequency in a particular area, a radio or TV station must make advertising time available to all candidates for a particular public office under the same terms. If a network donates money to a candidate's election campaign, its local affiliates are in effect giving free ad time to the candidate, possibly violating equal time.
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All you have to do is run some benchmarks to prove [that the Athlon is faster clock for clock than the P4].
In that case, Microsoft SQL and Oracle are infinitely slower than MySQL and PostgreSQL because I can't even get past the stupid EULAs that make me promise I won't release benchmark results to the general public. Watch for Intel to start pulling the same sh*t when the AMD Opteron trounces both the Pentium 5 and the Itanic.
Georgia is a serif font and Andale Mono is a fixed-width font based on a sans-serif typeface, there are no mostly-sans font types.
Some fixed-width sans-serif typefaces such as Lucida Typewriter (called Lucida Console on Windows) have serifs on the 'I', 'J' 'i', 'j', and 'l' glyphs.
Fixed-width fonts ... are not very good modern on-screen fonts as many of the parameters the fixed-width fonts were designed to solve are no longer an issue.
Do you claim that the unavailablity of <table> tags for tabular information (not for layout) in the subsets of HTML used by Slashdot, Kuro5hin, and Everything2 is "no longer an issue"? And why does Mozilla still display the <textarea> into which I type this comment in a fixed-width font?
Fixed-width fonts have NEVER been good for print.
Fixed-width fonts were good for print even before Gutenberg reinvented movable type. Chinese, the language of the first inventors of printing, is typically printed with a fixed-width font. So is Korean.
OTOH, I don't see what stops [Debian from] throwing the [Microsoft Typography] fonts into nonfree...
Microsoft's license stipulates that redistribution over a computer network must preserve the file names at the file transfer protocol (FTP, HTTP, SMB, etc) level, but the Debian non-free repository does not accept .exe files.
Is TrueType 'free'?
It may be free in some areas outside the United States of America, but until U.S. Patent 5,155,805 expires on October 13, 2009, some important parts of TrueType technology are not free in the U.S. or in countries that have signed mutual patent recognition treaties with the U.S.
Besides, the particular fonts in question are probably copyrighted until 70 years after the death of the designers who worked on those fonts. A typeface cannot be copyrighted, but a hinting program (there's usually one in every TTF) can.
PFAEdit is a sophisticated graphical editor for designing and editing Postscript fonts.
I looked in to PFAEdit and saw that it required Cygwin and XFree86. I could never get Cygwin and XFree86 to work on my Windows laptop, even after Reading The F[...] Manual. Thus, PFAEdit as it exists at the time of this writing is useless to Windows users such as myself who have not been able to successfully configure Cygwin and XFree86.
If anybody is willing to help me get Cygwin running, he or she should send private e-mail to tepples at spamcop dot net. However, note that when I could not get Cygwin to work, I deleted it to make room for school related files, and until September 2, I will be stuck behind dial-up access to the Internet and unable to stay on the phone long enough to download the latest version of Cygwin.
Is the bug likely to generate fewer sales or not?
If such a bug causes loss of data or compromise of private information, and the story hits Com.com or one of the other tech news sites, and the product does not have a monopoly in the product space, you bet the IT people will do their best to avoid such a product for new installations.
Anyway, let's assume [virtual reality online chat] does indeed already exist in one or more forms. Got any links to them?
Here's a list
In the case of libmysql (C native-interface library of MySQL), developers are forced to pay so much money for using GPL code(libmysql) in their software as non-GPL state, plus their customers have to pay money for commercial-licensed MySQL server.
Bull. The libmysql client software is NOT GPL but rather Lesser GPL, which allows linking the client software against a proprietary application program. "A license is not required if: You include the MySQL client code in a commercial program. The client part of MySQL is licensed under the LGPL". Even then, MySQL with InnoDB is $400 per multi-processor machine, as opposed to MS SQL's $20,000 per processor for the unlimited-client license.
Microsoft doesn't require such license fee when you use OLE/DB etc. to get native access to SQL server.
Yes it does. Microsoft SQL Server is priced based either on the number of processors or on the number of machines that will access the database.
Whereas NT/2K/XP, SQLServer, ASP.Net, Java, C#, .Net, XML, HTML 4, etc., are Unicode to the bone, the last I checked poor PHP and MySQL were both still stuck in the legacy world of regional character encodings.
Have you tried using UTF-8, an encoding of a sequence of Unicode characters into a sequence of 8-bit bytes, with your PHP/MySQL design?
I can't believe how many people in think that just because you have an excessively large music collection you stole it.
I didn't assume that. Rather, my mistake was to assume that nobody had a CD collection five times larger than the largest CD collection in my circle of friends. I guess I have a lot to learn.
Just wondering if anybody knew what sort of specs you'd want for your Linux box to run NWN.
It shouldn't be that different from the Windows specs, seeing as they're running on the same hardware. From the Neverwinter Nights page:
Now, if you want a playable game that runs faster than one frame per second:
<exaggeration><!-- Some of these devices don't actually exist yet -->
- Intel Pentium 5 or Athlon Clawhammer processor
- 1024 MB RAM
- 4.7 GB HD space
- CD-ROM drive fast enough to shatter CDs
- NVIDIA GeForce 5 video card or equivalent
- T1 Internet connection
</exaggeration>As soon as you hook an 'MP3 Player' up to a quality playback system (somthing better than your PC speakers)
What makes you think that my sound card isn't plugged into a medium-high-end receiver and speakers?
it become obvious that it's 'way worse' not 'way better.'
NO. Tests performed by r3mix show that 192 kbps LAME encoded audio is transparent to the human ear. Your concept of "mp3" seems to be stuck at "128 kbps encoded with MusicTrash Jukebox".
lossy:
Conversion of the original analog sounds into 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit linear PCM is itself lossy. Even conversion into 2.8 MHz stereo 1-bit PCM (Sony Super Audio CD) is lossy. It's a matter of how much loss you are willing to accept. For instance, the median *NSYNC fan wouldn't care if her copy of her favorite song was 64 kbps mono MP3.
I can spring the extra $200 for a >100g drive
A 100 GB drive will hold over 1,100 hours of MP3 audio at 192 kbps. Where did you buy your thousand CDs?
20GB is cool, but 60GB would rock!
But remember, it doesn't need to keep a copy of the operating system and applications on the same drive, so you gain 5-10 GB right there vs. a PC solution.
Anyway, how many CDs do you have? At 192,000 bits per second (which has been shown to be transparent for stereo audio, even on good speakers), 20 metric GB equals 160 billion bits equals 833,333 seconds, or 231 hours. Assuming each CD is one hour long, I infer that you must have a huge collection. How big is it?
I never noticed the lack of USB support [in Windows 95 and Windows 98] because the only computers I've run 95 & 98 on didn't have USB ports.
Did they have hard disk drives bigger than 2 GB? FAT16 supports only up to 65,525 clusters. Windows 95 retail supports only the FAT16 file system for fixed disks, and Windows 9x's implementation of FAT16 has a maximum cluster size of 32 KB, giving a 2 GB maximum filesystem size.
Wherever will I download "Songs of Ocarina" and soundtrack to "Legends of the Fall" if they shut off access to this great site!!!!!
Here. Of course, you'll need a postal network address, a modem for the connection medium, and some client software.
You think every corporation using Microsoft software is bound by their consumer licenses?
Yes. If not when they install the software, they become bound by the standard Microsoft EULA once they install any patches from Windows Update. Such EULA contains terms like "You may not disclose benchmark results of the .NET framework to a third party. For example, if you make a video game using the .NET framework, you may not include a frames-per-second indicator."
I could never tell a difference b/w Win95 w/ IE 4.0 and Win98.
Unlike Windows 98, retail Windows 95 did not support USB nor FAT32. Windows 95 OSR2 supported FAT32 and introduced rudimentary USB support, but Microsoft did not release a retail version of OSR2 and in fact cracked down on computer stores that sold copies.
Let me rephrase grandparent in more understandable terms:
If more uninformed people keep spouting their suggestions at the developer, this will only create more noise for the developer.
This runs against my prime directive - never to connect to the internet under the influence of Redmond binaries.
I didn't know you hated Nintendo that much. Nintendo's USA headquarters is located in Redmond, WA, not too far from One Microsoft Way. For a while, back in the Windows 3.1 days, they were working together on a legit emulator called (get this) "Wintendo".
Why not put that setting in the registry? Using the filesystem to store a bitflag is really fucking stupid.
What's wrong with having an interface to the registry through the filesystem API? That's almost what /proc is.
Almost.
While the new code might be better (like in the case of Microsoft's Java, back in those days), it will mean that the term "Java" would no longer mean just one thing
The source code license on Sun's implementation of the Java(TM) platform has nothing to do with rights to use the Java Compatible(TM) mark, which are covered under a separate trademark license agreement.
Wouldn't it be amazing if campaign finance contributions could only come from valid, registered voters?
I've already found a loophole in that law. Disney Employment Contract 2004: "The Walt Disney Company ("Disney") shall issue You a $1,000 check ("Lobby Check") every Labor Day (first Monday in September). You shall deposit the Lobby Check in your bank account and shall donate $1,000 annually to your representative's re-election campaign. You agree not to use the Lobby Check for any other purpose. You further agree to contact your Representative and Senators at least four times per year, urging them to adopt copyright, patent, and trademark legislation that favor Disney and other owners of copyrights, patents, and trademarks."
However, I see something even worse going on: a violation of the FCC's "equal time" rule. In the United States, as part of the bargain for a monopoly on the use of a particular broadcast frequency in a particular area, a radio or TV station must make advertising time available to all candidates for a particular public office under the same terms. If a network donates money to a candidate's election campaign, its local affiliates are in effect giving free ad time to the candidate, possibly violating equal time.
Of course I thought [urban myth] about the copy right on "Happy Birthday".
Yes, Virginia, there is a copyright on the song "Happy Birthday to You", and it is owned by a division of AOL(tw).
Of course there's a copyright on that song. Somebody had to write it, no?