NT4 Service Pack 6 broke Lotus Domino, that's the main reason SP6a was out less than a month later...
I don't know what your servers were running, but just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it didn't happen to others, and Domino was (and is) a pretty major server application...
Oh come on, Mandrake hasn't been RH repackaged since many years. Beside which, RedHat aren't stopping Linux, they will be concentrating on RH Enterprise Linux, so they'll continue to work on things like rpm and the like.
Besides : leaving us without a really easy to install distro? What are you smoking : Mandrake, SuSE, Xandros, Lycoris, Knoppix, even Lindows are as easy as, if not easier to install than Red Hat.
I think you really need to take of those 1998 glasses, we're almost 2004 and the world has changed in the meantime!
Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, but I don't often have the time to follow up on my articles.
Calculating this is quite easy:
If you can focus on something, and your eyes can resolve 2 arc minutes, then you can see something 2/3437 times (or 0.00058 times) smaller than the distance to the object. So if you can still focus at 1" distance (something babies and very near-sighted people are capable of), you should be able to distinguish things less than a thousandth of an inch across!
There is no exact "frame-rate" of the human eye, because different parts of the eye respond differently to change, some parts have higher refresh than others. This is why screen-flicker is easier to detect by looking at a screen sideways (the edge of vision has higher refresh rates, probably an evolutionary left-over, being able to detect movement quickly near the edge of vision is the closest we can come to having eyes on the back of our head).
As for resolution, this is highest near the center of your eye's field of view, and is mainly dependant on how close together the light-sensitive cells are in the middle of the eye. In practical terms, max resolution of most people's eyes is a couple of arc-minutes (1 arc-minute = 1/60 of a degree). To put this in real terms, 1 arc-minute is the angular size of an object when viewed from a distance 3437x its size, so a 1.8m (6ft) human being seen at 6.2km (3.9 miles) is about an arc minute high.
For a Computer monitor, that means that people with good vision (say 2 arc minute resolution) sitting 1 foot (30cm) away from a monitor, should be able to distinguish a pixel 0.09mm (0.0034") across, but only just. Typical LCD-screens have pixels 0.25-0.30 mm across.
Note that the US is also present at the conference. Besides, which country was it again, where a convicted monopolist got away with a light slap on the wrist?
They used StarOffice 6.0. OpenOffice is based on StarOffice 5.2
StarOffice 6.0 is based on OpenOffice.Org, which in turn is based on StarOffice 5.2
The reasons for the difference might be small differences between the OO.o version they tested, and SO6.0. If they use OO.o 1.1RC3, I suspect the results would be very different, as the MSOffice import filters are hugely improved in the new release.
In Europe, all representatives to the European parlaiment are also chosen by the majority party, and not proportionally.
I don't know where you got that idea from, the election format for the European elections is different from country to country, and in Belgium for one, it IS proportional (well, mostly, there is a non-proportional division between the three language-communities Dutch-speaking, French-speaking and German-speaking)
Other countries use different mechanisms, which are usually (but not always) similar to those for national elections.
Oh, shut up. You're so full of it... Those little Belgian War Heroes managed to keep the German army (from a country 10 times bigger) from capturing all of Belgium in the first World War, and in the second World War, they managed to resist the German Blitzkrieg for all of 18 days, where the Germans had expected to be at the North-Sea coast in only two or three days...
In both cases, you 'mericans only showed up a couple of years later...
By the way, have they found any WMD's yet in Iraq? Didn't think so...
Well, I wonder why it isn't called "martiography".
Actually, the correct term is "areography", from "Ares", the Greek god of War (aka "Mars" by the Romans).
"Geography" on the moon is "Selenography".
I do doubt they use such a term on Venus, "Aphroditography" isn't really a very practical term;-)
I'm kinda thinking that, if I could download that CD -changer and a six-way speaker for free, and installation consisted of putting it on the driver seat and clicking a button, a lot more people would be installing it.
Bottom-line : bad analogy, since replaceing the stereo-system costs...gasp... money and mozilla does not...
Microsoft could buy Sony with change left to spare
Uhm, in May 2002 Sony had a market Cap of 62 BILLION dollars. Even supposing that the US, European and Japanese governments would allow such a merger to take place (chance of that : 0%), Microsoft's largely theoretical cash reserve is estimated at "only" 40 billion, so they simply wouldn't be able to do this...
And that's even without assuming that such an attempt wouldn't sink M$ stock price and inflate Sony's stock price...
Think again Bro, M$ may be rich, but they're not that rich...
That's just it. Imagine a two-way SMP system with Hyperthreading. That's four virtual CPU's, but two virtual CPU's have access to local Level1/Level2 Cache, while the two other virtual CPU's have access to their own local Level1/Level2 cache. Hence : NUMA...
Of course, a single-CPU HT system has no need for this.
Actually, Dinosaur bones are thought to be an important cause of the "Dragon" myths, people have been finding dino bones for many hundreds of years. They are also used to explain the basic folklore about Giants. Dragons as shown in modern stories and films show little to no resemblance to the early "dragons" (chinese dragons are more like snakes with short legs)
You're doing the math wrong. If total revenue is 6.79 billion and Operating income is 4.88 billion, that makes Operating Costs 6.79-4.88 = 1.91 billion.
Or you could accellerate at 0.3g for 10 minutes, or 0.15g for 20 minutes, removing this problem.
And if you really want to decellerate at 1g, how about turning the chairs at mid-flight, so you wouldn't require seat belts. (In an accident at 4000 mph, seat belts wouldn't help much anyway...)
Idiot, you don't look daily because there's problems every day, you look daily so you're not vulnerable for over 24 hrs if a security hole is announced...
<BLOCKQUOTE>Today's CCD cameras are very slow to register intensity light -- much slower than film. The chemical reaction in film triggered by exposure can be controlled much better, simply by changing the tolerance of the film </BLOCKQUOTE> Nonsense, CCD-camera's have quantum-efficiencies of up to 90%, which means they can detect 90% of *individual* photons that fall onto the chip. Photographic film has QE of at best 20%, meaning at least 5 photons need to fall onto the same crystal for it to react. Since the arrival of a photon is in essence instantaneous, this means that in the same light-conditions, a scientific grade CCD-camera will be able to detect light intensities 5 times faster than the best photographic film.
The problem with CCD-chips is read-out speed, not the shortest possible exposure time. It takes at least milliseconds to read out a CCD-array, making them unsuitable for high-speed moviemaking.
Film read-out speed is much, much worse (film needs to be developed before it can be "read out", which can take hours) but the advantage of film is that you don't need to re-use the same part of it for each consecutive image, you just use the next piece in the roll...
<BLOCKQUOTE>CCD kind of sucks, man. For all its glorious promise, the best CCD chipsets aren't all that much better than the wonderful X-10 spycam.</BLOCKQUOTE> The best CCD-chips on the market are astronomical CCD's, they have resolutions up to 16,384x16,384 pixels and have 80-90% Quantum Efficiency across the whole visible spectrum and part of the IR-spectrum. They are about is good a light detector as you could possibly imagine. (The only thing that would be even better would be a detector capable of not only registering the impact of a photon, but simultaneously register the direction it came from and its energy - such detectors exist, but they have very low resolution and very low QE and are mostly used in particle accellerators).
Oh My God, Does that mean that if Humanity hadn't been pumping CO2 into the atmosphere for the past 4.5 billion years, we wouldn't have been here???
Wait a minute... we've only been doing it for the last 150 years, maybe the 'fact' you refer to is talking about natural sources of carbon dioxide. (BTW : one of the main sources of CO2 is breathing by living things, stopping *all* CO2-emissions would cause the "death" of all higher life in the time it takes to die from CO2-poisoning...)
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NT4 Service Pack 6 broke Lotus Domino, that's the main reason SP6a was out less than a month later...
I don't know what your servers were running, but just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it didn't happen to others, and Domino was (and is) a pretty major server application...
Then why make a comment like that?
Oh come on, Mandrake hasn't been RH repackaged since many years. Beside which, RedHat aren't stopping Linux, they will be concentrating on RH Enterprise Linux, so they'll continue to work on things like rpm and the like.
Besides : leaving us without a really easy to install distro? What are you smoking : Mandrake, SuSE, Xandros, Lycoris, Knoppix, even Lindows are as easy as, if not easier to install than Red Hat.
I think you really need to take of those 1998 glasses, we're almost 2004 and the world has changed in the meantime!
Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, but I don't often have the time to follow up on my articles.
Calculating this is quite easy:
If you can focus on something, and your eyes can resolve 2 arc minutes, then you can see something 2/3437 times (or 0.00058 times) smaller than the distance to the object. So if you can still focus at 1" distance (something babies and very near-sighted people are capable of), you should be able to distinguish things less than a thousandth of an inch across!
Long before? I kinda doubt it.
Cubase was first created on Atari ST more than a decade ago, long before BeOS even existed...
Comparing the default tools of BeOS to Cubase is like comparing notepad and (Emacs/vi), since they both edit text...
In answer to your questions:
There is no exact "frame-rate" of the human eye, because different parts of the eye respond differently to change, some parts have higher refresh than others. This is why screen-flicker is easier to detect by looking at a screen sideways (the edge of vision has higher refresh rates, probably an evolutionary left-over, being able to detect movement quickly near the edge of vision is the closest we can come to having eyes on the back of our head).
As for resolution, this is highest near the center of your eye's field of view, and is mainly dependant on how close together the light-sensitive cells are in the middle of the eye. In practical terms, max resolution of most people's eyes is a couple of arc-minutes (1 arc-minute = 1/60 of a degree). To put this in real terms, 1 arc-minute is the angular size of an object when viewed from a distance 3437x its size, so a 1.8m (6ft) human being seen at 6.2km (3.9 miles) is about an arc minute high.
For a Computer monitor, that means that people with good vision (say 2 arc minute resolution) sitting 1 foot (30cm) away from a monitor, should be able to distinguish a pixel 0.09mm (0.0034") across, but only just. Typical LCD-screens have pixels 0.25-0.30 mm across.
EU is still investigating, no fines (yet)
Note that the US is also present at the conference. Besides, which country was it again, where a convicted monopolist got away with a light slap on the wrist?
Uhm, you might want to check this out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096839.stm
High-res sonar scans have been done at Loch Ness, they found zilch...
StarOffice 6.0 is based on OpenOffice.Org, which in turn is based on StarOffice 5.2
The reasons for the difference might be small differences between the OO.o version they tested, and SO6.0. If they use OO.o 1.1RC3, I suspect the results would be very different, as the MSOffice import filters are hugely improved in the new release.
I don't know where you got that idea from, the election format for the European elections is different from country to country, and in Belgium for one, it IS proportional (well, mostly, there is a non-proportional division between the three language-communities Dutch-speaking, French-speaking and German-speaking)
Other countries use different mechanisms, which are usually (but not always) similar to those for national elections.
Oh, shut up. You're so full of it... Those little Belgian War Heroes managed to keep the German army (from a country 10 times bigger) from capturing all of Belgium in the first World War, and in the second World War, they managed to resist the German Blitzkrieg for all of 18 days, where the Germans had expected to be at the North-Sea coast in only two or three days...
In both cases, you 'mericans only showed up a couple of years later...
By the way, have they found any WMD's yet in Iraq? Didn't think so...
I'm kinda thinking that, if I could download that CD -changer and a six-way speaker for free, and installation consisted of putting it on the driver seat and clicking a button, a lot more people would be installing it.
...gasp... money and mozilla does not...
Bottom-line : bad analogy, since replaceing the stereo-system costs
Uhm, in May 2002 Sony had a market Cap of 62 BILLION dollars. Even supposing that the US, European and Japanese governments would allow such a merger to take place (chance of that : 0%), Microsoft's largely theoretical cash reserve is estimated at "only" 40 billion, so they simply wouldn't be able to do this...
And that's even without assuming that such an attempt wouldn't sink M$ stock price and inflate Sony's stock price...
Think again Bro, M$ may be rich, but they're not that rich...
That's just it. Imagine a two-way SMP system with Hyperthreading. That's four virtual CPU's, but two virtual CPU's have access to local Level1/Level2 Cache, while the two other virtual CPU's have access to their own local Level1/Level2 cache. Hence : NUMA...
Of course, a single-CPU HT system has no need for this.
Actually, Dinosaur bones are thought to be an important cause of the "Dragon" myths, people have been finding dino bones for many hundreds of years. They are also used to explain the basic folklore about Giants.
Dragons as shown in modern stories and films show little to no resemblance to the early "dragons" (chinese dragons are more like snakes with short legs)
I know, what I meant was DVD-quality at HDTV resolutions...
Why? Those specs are way faster than is needed for watching DIVX-movies (lessee : high-quality DIVX : 1 cd / 1 hour) ==> 700Mb / 3600s ==> 200 kb/s
Even DVD is easily possible (4.7GB/2hours = 650 kb/s). At 5MB/s DVD-quality HDTV is feasible.
You're doing the math wrong. If total revenue is 6.79 billion and Operating income is 4.88 billion, that makes Operating Costs 6.79-4.88 = 1.91 billion.
Profit margin is 4.88/1.91 = 255%
Nice...
Or you could accellerate at 0.3g for 10 minutes, or 0.15g for 20 minutes, removing this problem.
And if you really want to decellerate at 1g, how about turning the chairs at mid-flight, so you wouldn't require seat belts. (In an accident at 4000 mph, seat belts wouldn't help much anyway...)
With whores you don't have to wonder about it...
Idiot, you don't look daily because there's problems every day, you look daily so you're not vulnerable for over 24 hrs if a security hole is announced...
<BLOCKQUOTE>Today's CCD cameras are very slow to register intensity light -- much slower than film. The chemical reaction in film triggered by exposure can be controlled much better, simply by changing the tolerance of the film </BLOCKQUOTE>
Nonsense, CCD-camera's have quantum-efficiencies of up to 90%, which means they can detect 90% of *individual* photons that fall onto the chip.
Photographic film has QE of at best 20%, meaning at least 5 photons need to fall onto the same crystal for it to react. Since the arrival of a photon is in essence instantaneous, this means that in the same light-conditions, a scientific grade CCD-camera will be able to detect light intensities 5 times faster than the best photographic film.
The problem with CCD-chips is read-out speed, not the shortest possible exposure time. It takes at least milliseconds to read out a CCD-array, making them unsuitable for high-speed moviemaking.
Film read-out speed is much, much worse (film needs to be developed before it can be "read out", which can take hours) but the advantage of film is that you don't need to re-use the same part of it for each consecutive image, you just use the next piece in the roll...
<BLOCKQUOTE>CCD kind of sucks, man. For all its glorious promise, the best CCD chipsets aren't all that much better than the wonderful X-10 spycam.</BLOCKQUOTE>
The best CCD-chips on the market are astronomical CCD's, they have resolutions up to 16,384x16,384 pixels and have 80-90% Quantum Efficiency across the whole visible spectrum and part of the IR-spectrum. They are about is good a light detector as you could possibly imagine. (The only thing that would be even better would be a detector capable of not only registering the impact of a photon, but simultaneously register the direction it came from and its energy - such detectors exist, but they have very low resolution and very low QE and are mostly used in particle accellerators).
Oh My God, Does that mean that if Humanity hadn't been pumping CO2 into the atmosphere for the past 4.5 billion years, we wouldn't have been here???
Wait a minute... we've only been doing it for the last 150 years, maybe the 'fact' you refer to is talking about natural sources of carbon dioxide. (BTW : one of the main sources of CO2 is breathing by living things, stopping *all* CO2-emissions would cause the "death" of all higher life in the time it takes to die from CO2-poisoning...)