The whole reason SHN ever became popular at all was because of Etree. At some point, FLAC became real good and all of us Etree people started using it instead of SHN. Shorten has really no benefits over FLAC. If Shorten was truly free (and not just open source), I have a feeling it would have done better.
Oh man, I had a professor once prove one of the theorems in that family (Green, Stokes, Gauss, I can't remember which) and I was amazed at my ability to sit there with a straight face through the whole thing. Fortunately, being an engineering major, while we do need to know about those things, none of us dare try to prove them (and we'd all be screwed if we tried, a lot of professors included).
And from my experience, yes, the time I spend compiling stuff is worth it for all the learning and flexibility in the end.
Yea, it starts out that way, like six years ago when I was grabbing the GIMP from CVS on a regular basis just for fun. Then you discover Debian and recover your time, realizing that except for special cases, compiling yourself isn't worth it.
100% Correct. Theory is useless without experience and vice versa. Experience is going to give you the confidence to try something and see how it works out. Theory is going to help you realize that your harebrained idea won't work and to stop before it's too late. Of course, this situation is not the only one you will encounter, but a balanced combination of theory and experience will definitely prove useful to most scenarios.
You're living in fantasy land if you think land lines are secure to begin with. Technicians can and frequently *will* stumble upon private conversations in the course of doing their normal job... and that's even when they're not trying to.
I didn't say work until you drop. It's about balance. It seems for me that my mind and ability to think in class dulls the more time I spend away from it or work. It's hard to keep your mind sharp enough for school unless you're doing something to exercise it.
I'm sorry, but that's the worst advice I've ever heard. It's possible to work and still enjoy yourself. I think if you do not work in your field you will be at a serious disadvantage when it comes to finding a job. Let me rephrase that. If you DO work during college, you will be at a significant advantage, simply because most people do not work during school (fast food does not count for job experience, unless you're going to McDonald's University). Find something you enjoy doing, get good at it, get paid for it.
I suppose I might be jaded since I worked relatively full time every summer during high school and continue to do so in college doing everything from construction to database programming to enterprise networking. My peers think I'm a nut because I'm a MechE major and only do MechE type stuff as a hobby (i.e. work on cars). But guess what... 8-10 years of professional work experience when I get out of university will be indispensible, no matter what field I choose to settle down in.
Well, most of it at least. The actual noise is created by the flyback transformer and is damn annoying. High pitched sounds are interesting because the short wavelength creates all sorts of interference when you move around your head. Turn your head slowly from one side to the other and you can almost visualize an interference pattern similar to a single slit and a light.
Heh, while I don't like AOL's decision, I fully support their right to make it. Millions of people freeload off of the AIM system. You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using it.
You somewhat beat me to the punch. I was about to post that maybe Harvard should let their MIT comrades do their web development or at least let Greenspun take a look at their security before crying foul. It's just one more nail in the Ivy League coffin. Yep, I said it. It seems Harvard is too caught up in debating the ethicality of the matter than bothering to realize that their reaction to this is WAY overblown. The saving grace of the matter is that the world will potentially have 119 less MBA degreed genii to "manage" us.
On a semi-related note, one of the way the SEC reviews filings for fraud is by analyzing the numbers. Numbers such as 1, 2, 3 are more likely to occur on the books than ones like 7, 8, 9. If the "entropy," if you will, of the the accounting is too high, then it's very likely that someone made up numbers to fill the books.
As far as I know, all of Creative Labs' cards resample on input and output. Therefore, the stream will not be bit perfect. This is something you might want to be concerned with.
How long has it been since he started on D17? Three years? Four?
If you think it's taking too long, help out. Else, wait patiently. We're not talking about refactoring or correcting earlier mistakes. We're talking about the second complete utter rewrite from scratch.
And? Raster's one of the few who actually can "put up" instead of "shut up." It's not like he's rambling on about all these new features that need implementation and not coming out with any of the new functionality in the rewrites.
If they were to be lest "artistic" and concentrate more on getting something working for the masses "out the door", E would still be an incredible and highly-advanced wm.
In my opinion, the reason the Linux desktop sucks in so many respects is that things are just "thrown out the door" rather than carefully cradled out the door in a basket. Granted, there's a midpoint between the two that's probably best, but I find GNOME and KDE to be unusable as desktops. That's just me. I know a lot of people love it, but coming from the pre-GNOME and pre-KDE days when a lot of us were thrilled when WindowMaker came out, it seems like a large portion of the userbase doesn't care for GNOME and KDE. To me, E looks as promising as the Mac desktop (which I love and use daily). Give Raster some time. He keeps doing it over because he wants to get it right, a desire that is somewhat lacking from most projects.
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The whole reason SHN ever became popular at all was because of Etree. At some point, FLAC became real good and all of us Etree people started using it instead of SHN. Shorten has really no benefits over FLAC. If Shorten was truly free (and not just open source), I have a feeling it would have done better.
English?
http://bt.etree.org
Torrents for pretty much every band that allows free distribution of its shows.
Oh man, I had a professor once prove one of the theorems in that family (Green, Stokes, Gauss, I can't remember which) and I was amazed at my ability to sit there with a straight face through the whole thing. Fortunately, being an engineering major, while we do need to know about those things, none of us dare try to prove them (and we'd all be screwed if we tried, a lot of professors included).
And from my experience, yes, the time I spend compiling stuff is worth it for all the learning and flexibility in the end.
Yea, it starts out that way, like six years ago when I was grabbing the GIMP from CVS on a regular basis just for fun. Then you discover Debian and recover your time, realizing that except for special cases, compiling yourself isn't worth it.
100% Correct. Theory is useless without experience and vice versa. Experience is going to give you the confidence to try something and see how it works out. Theory is going to help you realize that your harebrained idea won't work and to stop before it's too late. Of course, this situation is not the only one you will encounter, but a balanced combination of theory and experience will definitely prove useful to most scenarios.
You're living in fantasy land if you think land lines are secure to begin with. Technicians can and frequently *will* stumble upon private conversations in the course of doing their normal job... and that's even when they're not trying to.
"Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
Or he could always visit the Half Bakery.
I didn't say work until you drop. It's about balance. It seems for me that my mind and ability to think in class dulls the more time I spend away from it or work. It's hard to keep your mind sharp enough for school unless you're doing something to exercise it.
I'm sorry, but that's the worst advice I've ever heard. It's possible to work and still enjoy yourself. I think if you do not work in your field you will be at a serious disadvantage when it comes to finding a job. Let me rephrase that. If you DO work during college, you will be at a significant advantage, simply because most people do not work during school (fast food does not count for job experience, unless you're going to McDonald's University). Find something you enjoy doing, get good at it, get paid for it.
I suppose I might be jaded since I worked relatively full time every summer during high school and continue to do so in college doing everything from construction to database programming to enterprise networking. My peers think I'm a nut because I'm a MechE major and only do MechE type stuff as a hobby (i.e. work on cars). But guess what... 8-10 years of professional work experience when I get out of university will be indispensible, no matter what field I choose to settle down in.
Well, most of it at least. The actual noise is created by the flyback transformer and is damn annoying. High pitched sounds are interesting because the short wavelength creates all sorts of interference when you move around your head. Turn your head slowly from one side to the other and you can almost visualize an interference pattern similar to a single slit and a light.
Safer? In what way? Both 120 and 240 are high enough voltages to overcome the high resistance of your skin.
Wow.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=open+source+
Erm, no. By default everything does go through their servers. Only when you "directly connect" does it do peer to peer.
Heh, while I don't like AOL's decision, I fully support their right to make it. Millions of people freeload off of the AIM system. You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using it.
You somewhat beat me to the punch. I was about to post that maybe Harvard should let their MIT comrades do their web development or at least let Greenspun take a look at their security before crying foul. It's just one more nail in the Ivy League coffin. Yep, I said it. It seems Harvard is too caught up in debating the ethicality of the matter than bothering to realize that their reaction to this is WAY overblown. The saving grace of the matter is that the world will potentially have 119 less MBA degreed genii to "manage" us.
If it comes from a real school, a Master of Engineering is a very good degree. For example, MIT offers Master of Engineering. http://cee.mit.edu/index.pl?id=4629&isa=Category&o p=show
Meh, MIT > Ivy.
On a semi-related note, one of the way the SEC reviews filings for fraud is by analyzing the numbers. Numbers such as 1, 2, 3 are more likely to occur on the books than ones like 7, 8, 9. If the "entropy," if you will, of the the accounting is too high, then it's very likely that someone made up numbers to fill the books.
As far as I know, all of Creative Labs' cards resample on input and output. Therefore, the stream will not be bit perfect. This is something you might want to be concerned with.
How long has it been since he started on D17? Three years? Four?
If you think it's taking too long, help out. Else, wait patiently.
We're not talking about refactoring or correcting earlier mistakes. We're talking about the second complete utter rewrite from scratch.
And? Raster's one of the few who actually can "put up" instead of "shut up." It's not like he's rambling on about all these new features that need implementation and not coming out with any of the new functionality in the rewrites.
However, enlightenment is way too layered and has a million different little components...
From Basics of the Unix Philosophy:
(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.
Many little things is good, not bad.
If they were to be lest "artistic" and concentrate more on getting something working for the masses "out the door", E would still be an incredible and highly-advanced wm.
In my opinion, the reason the Linux desktop sucks in so many respects is that things are just "thrown out the door" rather than carefully cradled out the door in a basket. Granted, there's a midpoint between the two that's probably best, but I find GNOME and KDE to be unusable as desktops. That's just me. I know a lot of people love it, but coming from the pre-GNOME and pre-KDE days when a lot of us were thrilled when WindowMaker came out, it seems like a large portion of the userbase doesn't care for GNOME and KDE. To me, E looks as promising as the Mac desktop (which I love and use daily). Give Raster some time. He keeps doing it over because he wants to get it right, a desire that is somewhat lacking from most projects.
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