The intel libraries and compilers are nice and fast, but they don't optimize at all on AMD hardware, even though AMD hardware will do SSE as well. That bugs me a bit.
I get my DSL not from a monopoly, nor a company that sells content, and certainly not one that tries to restrict what services I can run. Covad might be a couple more bucks a month, but if more people would sign up with such businesses, we'd have fewer worries about AOL/TimeWarner/BabyBells.
The Dell Ultrasharp display rules! It is fast and it looks gorgeous! (It also sucks a lot of power:) And yes, I play some of my 3D games at that resolution.
> Taiwan is not China. Taiwan is a very urban, very modern nation which participates fairly in the world economy.
And China is not an urban, mordern nation participating in the world economy? Obviously you haven't been to Shanghai or Hong Kong lately. From what I've seen, when it comes to capitalism, the U.S. doesn't have shit on China. All the hotels where I stayed in China had internet access. None of the hotels where I stayed in Europe did.
Perhaps I'm a bit ignorant here, but why poll at all? In my programs I never poll. If I ever need to wait on more than 1 I/O stream, I start a new thread that just blocks, while my other threads go about their business. The only other reason I ever create more threads is for better performance, to utilize multiple processors. Which leads me to ask, why would one need M:N? M:N doesn't help performance if you're waiting on I/O from the kernel or another process, and it doesn't help if you're trying to get a performance boost. And for what other reason would one create another thread?
My Dell has the Ultra Sharp 15" 1600x1200 display. It is really sweet. Much nicer than old 1280x1024 screens. I can't believe they're trying to charge $2500 for high end stuff with mediocre screens. I got mine for $1900 3 months ago.
Look, I'm not a parent, and I know sometimes parenting is harder than it looks, blahblahblah, but this stuff seems like it should be common sense. If you take your eight-year old to see Blade 2, not only will it annoy me, it's going to warp his world view.
Sounds like you'll make a good parent. My son sees nothing until it gets past my strict filter. This movie he'll probably have to wait to see, but he loves "Totoro".
Europe not buying GE food is not the only problem. Europe is covered by the same intellectual property laws as the US. So even if Europe did want to buy corn from Zimbabwe, they couldn't due to IP laws.
And if you don't think that agribusiness will go after poor countries to keep them from growing/using their GE foods, you are ignorant. Look a the big drug manufacturers (and American government officials) who went after poor African and South American countries for trying to manufacture AIDS drugs for their people. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?si d=01/01/2 7/2024245&mode=thread&tid=155 This is why these African nations are afraid! They _know_ what the US and its corporations will do if any GE genes get into their corn supply.
It would be nice if every 5-10 years NIST or the Smithsonian would accept a standard that would always be accessible in the future. That is, the government would fund the continued existence of a select few outdated digital technologies in the interest of being able to archive data on that technology (and have it always readable).
This would come at some cost, but then everyone would know what to format use if they want to save something for the great great grandchildren.
Many of us who transfer large amounts of data over the internet (TBytes worth) don't care about people decrypting our files. (To you my files would like random numbers anyway.)
We only really care about safegaurding the authentication process. In fact I would love to see a feature in scp where only the authentication is encrypted and all other data transfers are not.
The humor is why I always read Spider Man comics as a kid. Spidey always had the best wisecracks, especially about himself. I wasn't going to see the movie if these were not in there. The Superman/Batman movies are so bad because they attempt to make guys in goofy costumes so serious.
Does this thing have an online interface?
That is, if I have customers ordering online
over the web, can I interface it with this
software?
It would seem easy enough to implement...
> And it doesn't help that it is spread linearly over the range. 32-bit floating point sounds much nicer.
Yes, linear encoding was a pretty dumb idea, being that the human hearing (like sight), is logarithmic. However, one can make the same argument about LPs, over which audiofiles constantly gush. It is a bumpy surface read out by a needle of constant size. There is nothing logarithmic about that method of encoding or reading either.
"warmth"? "Jaggies"?
Those are scientific terms right?
The bottom line is this: If you properly discretely measure a signal beyond the Nyquist frequency (~40kHz) and properly convert it back
to an analog signal, the difference between it and the original is undetectable by an device (human ear) that is only sensitive up to 1/2 the Nyquist frequency.
Note that I said properly. Messing up the digitization (by aliasing) the analog conversion
is certainly possible.
Yes, overtones are what make pianos sound different than violins, but no you can't hear any overtones above ~20kHz.
And no, pianos don't have notes at 16kHz.
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The intel libraries and compilers are nice and fast, but they don't optimize at all on AMD hardware, even though AMD hardware will do SSE as well. That bugs me a bit.
10 of 21st Century Airships' aircraft up to the stratosphere early in 2004, at a cost of about $36-million (U.S.).
10 balloons with 2 way communication ability. This is WAY cheaper than even 1 satellite that has (for most people) only download.
Will I be able to develop levels and DM using Linux? From what I hear this is all the fun in the game.
that has yet to carry it's first passenger???
And it never would, if Luddites like you were in charge.
I get my DSL not from a monopoly, nor a company that sells content, and certainly not one that tries to restrict what services I can run. Covad might be a couple more bucks a month, but if more people would sign up with such businesses, we'd have fewer worries about AOL/TimeWarner/BabyBells.
The Dell Ultrasharp display rules! It is fast :) And yes, I play some of my 3D games at that resolution.
and it looks gorgeous! (It also sucks a lot of power
> Taiwan is not China. Taiwan is a very urban, very modern nation which participates fairly in the world economy.
And China is not an urban, mordern nation participating in the world economy? Obviously you haven't been to Shanghai or Hong Kong lately. From what I've seen, when it comes to capitalism, the U.S. doesn't have shit on China. All the hotels where I stayed in China had internet access. None of the hotels where I stayed in Europe did.
Perhaps I'm a bit ignorant here, but why poll at all? In my programs I never poll. If I ever need to wait on more than 1 I/O stream, I start a new thread that just blocks, while my other threads go about their business. The only other reason I ever create more threads is for better performance, to utilize multiple processors. Which leads me to ask, why would one need M:N? M:N doesn't help performance if you're waiting on I/O from the kernel or another process, and it doesn't help if you're trying to get a performance boost. And for what other reason would one create another thread?
Not trying to be antagonistic here, just curious.
My Dell has the Ultra Sharp 15" 1600x1200 display. It is really sweet. Much nicer than old 1280x1024 screens. I can't believe they're trying to charge $2500 for high end stuff with mediocre screens. I got mine for $1900 3 months ago.
You'd think that people would want some 64bit PCI slots for their awesome 64 bit server, no?
Sounds like you'll make a good parent. My son sees nothing until it gets past my strict filter. This movie he'll probably have to wait to see, but he loves "Totoro".
In the trailer there appear to be soot sprites like there were in "Totoro." Is that what they are?
I have a national ISP (one of the best). I share with the people in adjacent apartments. I ran the cable myself.
Share. I pay 30 for my 1.5 Mbs/s DSL.
Europe not buying GE food is not the only problem. Europe is covered by the same intellectual property laws as the US. So even if Europe did want to buy corn from Zimbabwe, they couldn't due to IP laws.
i d=01/01/2 7/2024245&mode=thread&tid=155
And if you don't think that agribusiness will go after poor countries to keep them from growing/using their GE foods, you are ignorant. Look a the big drug manufacturers (and American government officials) who went after poor African and South American countries for trying to manufacture AIDS drugs for their people.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?s
This is why these African nations are afraid! They _know_ what the US and its corporations will do if any GE genes get into their corn supply.
It would be nice if every 5-10 years NIST or the Smithsonian would accept a standard that would always be accessible in the future. That is, the government would fund the continued existence of a select few outdated digital technologies in the interest of being able to archive data on that technology (and have it always readable).
This would come at some cost, but then everyone would know what to format use if they want to save something for the great great grandchildren.
How does one do that? I tried
$ scp -c none worksync home:/tmp
No valid ciphers for protocol version 2 given, using defaults.
sam@home's password:
Many of us who transfer large amounts of data over the internet (TBytes worth) don't care about people decrypting our files. (To you my files would like random numbers anyway.)
We only really care about safegaurding the authentication process. In fact I would love to see a feature in scp where only the authentication is encrypted and all other data transfers are not.
The humor is why I always read Spider Man comics as a kid. Spidey always had the best wisecracks, especially about himself. I wasn't going to see the movie if these were not in there. The Superman/Batman movies are so bad because they attempt to make guys in goofy costumes so serious.
AIPS++ is what professionals use.
http://aips2.nrao.edu/docs/aips++.html
Does this thing have an online interface?
That is, if I have customers ordering online
over the web, can I interface it with this
software?
It would seem easy enough to implement...
Federal law says that if you receive anything in the mail with your name on it, it is YOURS, whether you ordered it or not. Period.
If you get a cd in the mail w/ an OS on it, it is YOURS.
> And it doesn't help that it is spread linearly over the range. 32-bit floating point sounds much nicer.
Yes, linear encoding was a pretty dumb idea, being that the human hearing (like sight), is logarithmic. However, one can make the same argument about LPs, over which audiofiles constantly gush. It is a bumpy surface read out by a needle of constant size. There is nothing logarithmic about that method of encoding or reading either.
"warmth"? "Jaggies"?
Those are scientific terms right?
The bottom line is this: If you properly discretely measure a signal beyond the Nyquist frequency (~40kHz) and properly convert it back
to an analog signal, the difference between it and the original is undetectable by an device (human ear) that is only sensitive up to 1/2 the Nyquist frequency.
Note that I said properly. Messing up the digitization (by aliasing) the analog conversion
is certainly possible.
Yes, overtones are what make pianos sound different than violins, but no you can't hear any overtones above ~20kHz.
And no, pianos don't have notes at 16kHz.