People are different, most people does not hear frequencies above 12kHz. For them, you?, the content above is meaningless and CD is superior in all aspects. For a few others sounds even above 20kHz is detected (me 20 years ago....) and "unhearable" sounds can be very annoying.
What seems to exist in this area (>12kHz) that most people dismiss (naturally, they can not hear them) is "the room". Filter them away and it feels like listening to the music through a wall
Unfortunately there exists a lot of noise in this area also. Created by bad D/A conversion but mostly because of bad mastering where the music is compressed and it's average volume is increased causing clipping distortion. This noise is for me much worse than the noise coming from an old LP
I have not been able to by any new CDs for a long while because even the old music is now getting destroyed by remastering and to buy a good quality CD is really difficult
I checked documentation and I was wrong. Versioning in.NET is like in other operating systems except that old, compatible, versions of library are kept.
My laptop has a 30GB Vertex drive. I bought it a year ago because it was fast and cheaper/performance than velociraptor (which could not be put into the laptop anyway because of power consumption and heat). I run Ubuntu 9.10 64bit on it and using VirtualBox to run the other OS'es I need/want:
Ubuntu 9.04 32bit
Maemo SDK image (Ubuntu 8.04)
Windows XP
Haiku
Yes I am considering buying an Intel 80Gb SSD but OTOH I could ditch XP as I am not really using it.
PS. I stream music and film from the net or from my server
All statistics are unreliable in one way or another. Do you have something less reliable to offer? Like where you got your information from?
Also remember that the statistics from stats sites are not counting how many users are using certain browser but how much is browsed with each browser. So both you and statcounter could be correct, less people simply browsed more. Two different kinds of market share
When checking statistics (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-weekly-200827-201011) I can not se that people are choosing different browser because of this ballot. Probably it is only causing that everybody is reinstalling whatever browser they have choosen.
I'm sceptical of anything which proposes to simply double the amount of energy extracted...
They claimed 50% increase of efficiency.
...the alternative would be that conventional engines were spewing out half the gas unburned. Which just isn't the case.
The efficiency of combustion engines are ~20% so you could say that more than half is lost (80% actually). An increase with 50% would but it in the 30% range which seems reasonable to me.
Grouping three different browsers together never made sense to me. There is more differences between IE6 and IE8 than between Firefox and Opera. Grouping All firefox together might make sense but not grouping IE.
Car analogy: Toyota Corolla is the most sold car in the world but there is not much if at all that is reused from the 1966 version in todays car. It is only the name that is the same
So rejoice that web-developers can tell their PHB's that they are now developing for both the w3c-standard AND the de-facto standard.
I have used it a little more than a year so I have no clue of how it was before, try it again you might like it.
Some people say netbeans is a great C++ IDE and Anjuta is starting to get really nice also but it is putting all source in the same place exactly like VisualStudio.
Eclipse is in my opinion far nicer environment than VisualStudio for C/C++ development. It has some quirks and visualstudio has some quirks but when sitting and coding eclipse is superior.
My favourites:
Ctrl-tab to switch between header and cpp-file
Formating of whole document
Creating folders and storing the new classes there (visual studio i putting all sourcefiles in root catalogue)
Automatic build
Better indexer (intellisense). Not showing pages of alternatives that can't be used
Indenting and auto expansion works as I want.
C++ Debugger in VisualStudio is better when showing values in classes.
There probably is a better C++ IDE than eclipse but it is not VisualStudio
Most people seems to be concentrated on describing how to duplicate the server. This is great for availability but does not protect against mistakes/sabotage. Corruption on main server is too easily spreading into the clone.
Use a real backup tool (backup2l is great) and THEN use rsync to copy (not mirror/delete) the backup to a secondary server.
The secondary server should be locked down with no public services running to minimize the risk of somebody hacking both machines and sabotaging your backup.
Whether or not a Bluetooth mouse was given CPU cycle precedence would depend entirely upon how the Bluetooth protocol stack was developed, wouldn't it?
Entirely correct. I can have 100% utilization on both cores on my computer and my bluetooth mouse is still perfectly responsive. I have seen no difference between rf and bluetooth wireless mices in this respect.
Bluetooth in a crowded environment have a tendency to make the computer (windows xp only?) hang because everybody is running around with cell-phones with bluetooth on and it becomes a lot of negotiations and discoveries going. So I have disabled bluetooth at work.
But bluetooth has one advantage in less crowded situtations, two bluetooth mices does not disturb each other! At home we had a problem that the wireless mouse and keyboards where disturning each other, when my wife was moving the mouse (trackball actually) then I could not use mine. It did not matter that it was different manufacturers and I tried several different combinations. Finally I changed into using bluetooth mouse and wired keyboard.
My bluetooth mouse is a logitech V470 and it works flawlessly. I have not not noticed the lockups I had at work even when sitting in crowded places but it might be that I am using Linux in my laptop and that the problem is a Windows only problem.
At work I am now using a Logitech V220 cordless. It also works perfekt and there is no disturbance from collegues. In a tight cubicle landscape it might be a problem like I have at home but we have our own offices.
If you do not sit cramped together with others using wireless mice/keyboard then I recomend standard rf-wireless. If you get problems then switch to bluetooth.
In sweden most articles are microsoft biased. Even when it is an article that is possitive about a non-microsoft product the headline is still trying to negate it not to make big brother angry.
But Sweden was the only country where Windows 1.x was selling well.
PS. Yes, the Apple magazines are positive to Apple products even here.
They are continuing to kill the language and platform, now C# and.NET in their attempt to kill Java. All extensions they are adding "for value" are making their offer stray more and more from Java direction: Simplicity!
Events and Delegates looked like a great idea in the beginning, before I saw the resulting code (and memory leaks). LINQ is supposedly great also but it is making it possible to write even more complex code.
I know plenty that are using mouse on left side, or having two mices, both "lefties" and "righties". The reason for the "righties" is usually "tennis elbow" or, literally translated from Swedish, "Mouse arm". IE. pain (inflammation) in arm/wrist caused by using mouse extensively.
I, a rightie, have been using the mouse on the left side for a few months because of inflammation caused by extensive Windows Forms programming.....
In an environment where you want to enforce that certain rules are followed like:
The commit message must contain who was reviewing the code
The commit message must show which issue is this commit connected to
Then such hooks are neat. It also gives possibility to connect one tool to another like adding the commit message to the issue (and close it) in issue-trackers and like bugzilla.
Unix strength is to combine different, small, components to something bigger, so there is some justification to the hooks.
Innovation comes from creativity and possibility(time) to implement it. I do not believe you can buy innovation or that the creative minds stop innovate just because it is an economic downturn.
Besides, during the downturns it is usually higher pressure to create new (innovative) products, at least on my workplace.
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People are different, most people does not hear frequencies above 12kHz. For them, you?, the content above is meaningless and CD is superior in all aspects. For a few others sounds even above 20kHz is detected (me 20 years ago....) and "unhearable" sounds can be very annoying.
What seems to exist in this area (>12kHz) that most people dismiss (naturally, they can not hear them) is "the room". Filter them away and it feels like listening to the music through a wall
Unfortunately there exists a lot of noise in this area also. Created by bad D/A conversion but mostly because of bad mastering where the music is compressed and it's average volume is increased causing clipping distortion. This noise is for me much worse than the noise coming from an old LP
I have not been able to by any new CDs for a long while because even the old music is now getting destroyed by remastering and to buy a good quality CD is really difficult
I checked documentation and I was wrong. Versioning in .NET is like in other operating systems except that old, compatible, versions of library are kept.
This sounds like .NET as that is the road taken there.
And yes, I agree with you as I did have the same thoughts when I participated in an introduction course of .NET programming.
I agree
My laptop has a 30GB Vertex drive. I bought it a year ago because it was fast and cheaper/performance than velociraptor (which could not be put into the laptop anyway because of power consumption and heat). I run Ubuntu 9.10 64bit on it and using VirtualBox to run the other OS'es I need/want:
Yes I am considering buying an Intel 80Gb SSD but OTOH I could ditch XP as I am not really using it.
PS. I stream music and film from the net or from my server
All statistics are unreliable in one way or another. Do you have something less reliable to offer? Like where you got your information from?
Also remember that the statistics from stats sites are not counting how many users are using certain browser but how much is browsed with each browser. So both you and statcounter could be correct, less people simply browsed more. Two different kinds of market share
When checking statistics (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-weekly-200827-201011) I can not se that people are choosing different browser because of this ballot. Probably it is only causing that everybody is reinstalling whatever browser they have choosen.
They claimed 50% increase of efficiency.
The efficiency of combustion engines are ~20% so you could say that more than half is lost (80% actually). An increase with 50% would but it in the 30% range which seems reasonable to me.
Grouping three different browsers together never made sense to me. There is more differences between IE6 and IE8 than between Firefox and Opera. Grouping All firefox together might make sense but not grouping IE.
Car analogy: Toyota Corolla is the most sold car in the world but there is not much if at all that is reused from the 1966 version in todays car. It is only the name that is the same
So rejoice that web-developers can tell their PHB's that they are now developing for both the w3c-standard AND the de-facto standard.
I have used it a little more than a year so I have no clue of how it was before, try it again you might like it.
Some people say netbeans is a great C++ IDE and Anjuta is starting to get really nice also but it is putting all source in the same place exactly like VisualStudio.
Eclipse is in my opinion far nicer environment than VisualStudio for C/C++ development. It has some quirks and visualstudio has some quirks but when sitting and coding eclipse is superior.
My favourites:
C++ Debugger in VisualStudio is better when showing values in classes.
There probably is a better C++ IDE than eclipse but it is not VisualStudio
Most people seems to be concentrated on describing how to duplicate the server. This is great for availability but does not protect against mistakes/sabotage. Corruption on main server is too easily spreading into the clone.
Use a real backup tool (backup2l is great) and THEN use rsync to copy (not mirror/delete) the backup to a secondary server.
The secondary server should be locked down with no public services running to minimize the risk of somebody hacking both machines and sabotaging your backup.
Me too but I lack the mod points.....
Whether or not a Bluetooth mouse was given CPU cycle precedence would depend entirely upon how the Bluetooth protocol stack was developed, wouldn't it?
Entirely correct. I can have 100% utilization on both cores on my computer and my bluetooth mouse is still perfectly responsive. I have seen no difference between rf and bluetooth wireless mices in this respect.
Running: Dell D630/Core 2 Duo T7250/Logitech V470/4Gb ram/30Gb OCZ Vertex/Ubuntu 9.04
Bluetooth in a crowded environment have a tendency to make the computer (windows xp only?) hang because everybody is running around with cell-phones with bluetooth on and it becomes a lot of negotiations and discoveries going. So I have disabled bluetooth at work.
But bluetooth has one advantage in less crowded situtations, two bluetooth mices does not disturb each other! At home we had a problem that the wireless mouse and keyboards where disturning each other, when my wife was moving the mouse (trackball actually) then I could not use mine. It did not matter that it was different manufacturers and I tried several different combinations. Finally I changed into using bluetooth mouse and wired keyboard.
My bluetooth mouse is a logitech V470 and it works flawlessly. I have not not noticed the lockups I had at work even when sitting in crowded places but it might be that I am using Linux in my laptop and that the problem is a Windows only problem.
At work I am now using a Logitech V220 cordless. It also works perfekt and there is no disturbance from collegues. In a tight cubicle landscape it might be a problem like I have at home but we have our own offices.
If you do not sit cramped together with others using wireless mice/keyboard then I recomend standard rf-wireless. If you get problems then switch to bluetooth.
In sweden most articles are microsoft biased. Even when it is an article that is possitive about a non-microsoft product the headline is still trying to negate it not to make big brother angry.
But Sweden was the only country where Windows 1.x was selling well.
PS. Yes, the Apple magazines are positive to Apple products even here.
They are continuing to kill the language and platform, now C# and .NET in their attempt to kill Java. All extensions they are adding "for value" are making their offer stray more and more from Java direction: Simplicity!
Events and Delegates looked like a great idea in the beginning, before I saw the resulting code (and memory leaks). LINQ is supposedly great also but it is making it possible to write even more complex code.
Trust Microsoft to add complexity to our life...
I know plenty that are using mouse on left side, or having two mices, both "lefties" and "righties". The reason for the "righties" is usually "tennis elbow" or, literally translated from Swedish, "Mouse arm". IE. pain (inflammation) in arm/wrist caused by using mouse extensively. I, a rightie, have been using the mouse on the left side for a few months because of inflammation caused by extensive Windows Forms programming.....
Then such hooks are neat. It also gives possibility to connect one tool to another like adding the commit message to the issue (and close it) in issue-trackers and like bugzilla. Unix strength is to combine different, small, components to something bigger, so there is some justification to the hooks.
'When customers aren't buying, tool vendors don't innovate ...'
Innovation comes from creativity and possibility(time) to implement it. I do not believe you can buy innovation or that the creative minds stop innovate just because it is an economic downturn.
Besides, during the downturns it is usually higher pressure to create new (innovative) products, at least on my workplace.