> Um, the "Nyquist frequency" has nothing to do with "human hearing."
Wrong. See the next post. Human hearing gives out at 20kHz if you have good ears. That means you need at most sampling at 40kHz (the Nyquist frequency) to completely reconstruct the waveforms audible to humans. CDs go to 44kHz.
I've grown tired of snobby audiophile types that claim there is a difference, that analog plastic LPs are much better than "digital".
The bottom line is, CDs encode the entire range of human hearing. The sampling is beyond the Nyquist frequency of human hearing.
The only way that a human could tell a digital recording is different from an analog is if it is done incorrectly, i.e. bad digitization (recording) or bad analog conversion (the result of a badly adjusted CD player).
In the book Fahrenheit 451 a character explains to
the protaganist how it came to be that all books
are banned. Not all books were banned at once.
Certain groups opposed certain content that then
became illegal. Over time all content became
illegal.
The point is that, should we be complacent about
giving up any part of any liberty, such as freedom
of speech, we could loose them all. Losing one
particular freedom is not bad, but giving up the
princple that we do not give up liberties
is bad.
Covad has been great for me. I'd sooner eat
hay than use "Qwest". I pay for what I want
and I get it.
Competition is the only real way to keep these
baby bells at bay. Unfortunately, people
don't really go out of their way for them.
You're missing the point. If your government spent as much money on mass transit as it does on roads and policing them, public transit would be faster than driving AND safer, and you wouldn't have to buy a car.
Comparing the current state of driving now to the current state of mass transit now is unfair unless the two are equally funded.
Mass transit is far safer than you think.
Any form of mass transit IS 7 times safer than
automobiles on a per person per passenger mile basis. That is, you are 7 times less likely to die in a bus, airplane, or train than in a car for every mile that you travel. Yes, there are more news articles about people dieing in large crashes than smaller ones, but that is because deaths in small auto crashes are so common (~50000/year in the US!) newspapers don't even print them anymore. Automobiles are FAR more deadly than any mass transit.
I think you also underestimate the possibilities of mass transit in moderate density areas. But that could be argued much more.
I think this just shows us how stupid the idea of individually controlled transportation is. This is just one of the reasons any form of mass transit is 7 times safer than automobiles. This "entertainment" is a high tech kludge to a inherently limited transportation system. As long as any joe in any physical condition can jump behind a wheel of a vehicle, automobiles will continue to be deadly.
It's a pitty that the US government so heavily subsidizes automobiles and gives other forms of transit the shaft, especially with possibility of having other much more technically advanced forms of transit such as high-speed rail and supersonic transport.
Are any of these players threaded?
I have an older dual machine. MPTV
is great about this. It's threaded, and runs great
but I don't think it does DVDs.
Petreley is right (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/21/00821 6&mode=thread).
Stop following the alien to his hotel room. This isn't important.
Let's have some more article on open source authentication services vs. M$ passport.
I doubt it will be vapor. It's not going to die
due to lack of funding. Nokia is a big-ass company. It's not like it will cost a lot to develop and make either. Since they're using standard hardware and standard software, it should cost little to develop. I may not ever be huge, but on the scale of a corporation like Nokia, this is a small deal.
It says they have redhat 7 rpms, but before you can install them, you have to upgrade half the existing packages on your system! I'll wait until I upgrade...
> Rotfl. So does it means that 2.2 sucked despite all the claims that it was a server-class OS ?
No. And I did not imply that it did. 2.2 was very good. I just said 2.4 is better.
> Now, it is pollitically correct to talk about shortcomings of 2.2 ?
It always has been. That's the advantage of open source OS's.
Do I detect some fear of inferiority here?
As far as using it as a server, 2.4 is FAST.
Much faster than 2.2. Our SCSI RAID goes about
3x faster and NFS goes twice as fast (over
gigabit ethernet).
Do you have java, javascript enabled?
Do you have flash downloaded and installed in
your.netscape/plugins directory? Do you
have realplayer 8 installed?
"Central to the success of the Internet is the fact that it is based upon open, non-proprietary and non-monopolistic standards. Also, no single firm or cartel yet controls key Internet bottlenecks, such as last-mile delivery of Internet content. But all of these factors are constantly at risk by forces that want to control and monopolize various aspects of the Internet."
I've been benching our machines, and the numbers he gave are typical for DMA turned off. When I turn DMA on my home machine on, it goes 3 times faster. I get ~10 Meg/sec on my IDE drive.
What was that web page that was based on gimp, that enabled browser based image manipulation via gimp? There was a/. story on it earlier, but I can't find it.
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> Um, the "Nyquist frequency" has nothing to do with "human hearing."
Wrong. See the next post. Human hearing gives out at 20kHz if you have good ears. That means you need at most sampling at 40kHz (the Nyquist frequency) to completely reconstruct the waveforms audible to humans. CDs go to 44kHz.
I've grown tired of snobby audiophile types that claim there is a difference, that analog plastic LPs are much better than "digital".
The bottom line is, CDs encode the entire range of human hearing. The sampling is beyond the Nyquist frequency of human hearing.
The only way that a human could tell a digital recording is different from an analog is if it is done incorrectly, i.e. bad digitization (recording) or bad analog conversion (the result of a badly adjusted CD player).
In the book Fahrenheit 451 a character explains to
the protaganist how it came to be that all books
are banned. Not all books were banned at once.
Certain groups opposed certain content that then
became illegal. Over time all content became
illegal.
The point is that, should we be complacent about
giving up any part of any liberty, such as freedom
of speech, we could loose them all. Losing one
particular freedom is not bad, but giving up the
princple that we do not give up liberties
is bad.
Covad has been great for me. I'd sooner eat hay than use "Qwest". I pay for what I want and I get it. Competition is the only real way to keep these baby bells at bay. Unfortunately, people don't really go out of their way for them.
You're missing the point. If your government spent as much money on mass transit as it does on roads and policing them, public transit would be faster than driving AND safer, and you wouldn't have to buy a car.
Comparing the current state of driving now to the current state of mass transit now is unfair unless the two are equally funded.
>Mass transit isn't as safe as you'd think.
Mass transit is far safer than you think.
Any form of mass transit IS 7 times safer than
automobiles on a per person per passenger mile basis. That is, you are 7 times less likely to die in a bus, airplane, or train than in a car for every mile that you travel. Yes, there are more news articles about people dieing in large crashes than smaller ones, but that is because deaths in small auto crashes are so common (~50000/year in the US!) newspapers don't even print them anymore. Automobiles are FAR more deadly than any mass transit.
I think you also underestimate the possibilities of mass transit in moderate density areas. But that could be argued much more.
I think this just shows us how stupid the idea of individually controlled transportation is. This is just one of the reasons any form of mass transit is 7 times safer than automobiles. This "entertainment" is a high tech kludge to a inherently limited transportation system. As long as any joe in any physical condition can jump behind a wheel of a vehicle, automobiles will continue to be deadly.
It's a pitty that the US government so heavily subsidizes automobiles and gives other forms of transit the shaft, especially with possibility of having other much more technically advanced forms of transit such as high-speed rail and supersonic transport.
I read the paper. The paper describes only their own implementation, it does not compare to other implementations. Did you read the paper?
Am I right in saying that Linux threads
are kernel level threads and the IBM/GNU threads are user space threads?
What's wrong with Linux threads? I've been using them for a while. They seem to work for me.Why are the IBM ones so much better?
Since they're both posix threads (pthread_create()) how does one determine which one will be used when both are on one system?
Are any of these players threaded? I have an older dual machine. MPTV is great about this. It's threaded, and runs great but I don't think it does DVDs.
Petreley is right (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/21/00821 6&mode=thread).
Stop following the alien to his hotel room. This isn't important.
Let's have some more article on open source authentication services vs. M$ passport.
http://www.nokia.com/multimedia/tech_specs.html
I doubt it will be vapor. It's not going to die due to lack of funding. Nokia is a big-ass company. It's not like it will cost a lot to develop and make either. Since they're using standard hardware and standard software, it should cost little to develop. I may not ever be huge, but on the scale of a corporation like Nokia, this is a small deal.
Depends on what you're doing. On our server, 2.4 NFS is about twice as fast as 2.2 and our SCSI RAID disks are about 3 times as fast.
It says they have redhat 7 rpms, but before you can install them, you have to upgrade half the existing packages on your system! I'll wait until I upgrade...
> Rotfl. So does it means that 2.2 sucked despite all the claims that it was a server-class OS ? No. And I did not imply that it did. 2.2 was very good. I just said 2.4 is better. > Now, it is pollitically correct to talk about shortcomings of 2.2 ? It always has been. That's the advantage of open source OS's. Do I detect some fear of inferiority here?
As far as using it as a server, 2.4 is FAST. Much faster than 2.2. Our SCSI RAID goes about 3x faster and NFS goes twice as fast (over gigabit ethernet).
I hope they do a good job. It would really suck if these movies sucked like most fantasy films.
Do you have java, javascript enabled? Do you have flash downloaded and installed in your .netscape/plugins directory? Do you
have realplayer 8 installed?
Check out http://voteexchange.com/ It worked for me.
"Central to the success of the Internet is the fact that it is based upon open, non-proprietary and non-monopolistic standards. Also, no single firm or cartel yet controls key Internet bottlenecks, such as last-mile delivery of Internet content. But all of these factors are constantly at risk by forces that want to control and monopolize various aspects of the Internet."
Nader is extremely sharp on a wide array of topics of concern to the common Joe. He knows about telephone, cable, DSL. He's one sharp cookie.
This is good news. I would definitely buy AMD boards if they had SMP boards. But they don't. So I'm still buying Intel. It's that simple.
I've been benching our machines, and the numbers he gave are typical for DMA turned off. When I turn DMA on my home machine on, it goes 3 times faster. I get ~10 Meg/sec on my IDE drive.
What was that web page that was based on gimp, that enabled browser based image manipulation via gimp? There was a /. story on it earlier, but I can't find it.