After all ur working digitally, and can do all ur audio straight from what ur working on into a CD ISO.
You need a professional soundcard because:
1) You may want to record good quality audio. Maybe from several sources simultaneously.
2) You may want to listen to what you are doing before burning a CD.
3) You need a professional soundcard with latency of a few ms (and good drivers) so that you can play a note on a MIDI keyboard and not having to wait half a second to hear it from your softsynth and effects.
Do these HW companies want to be SW companies?
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Do these two clown companies think they are selling hardware or software? They have a great hardware idea, but why ruin it all by requiring their proprietary Windows-only "easy-to-use" software?
They are giving the software away anyway, so why don't they go open source? And use a standardized documented file format? They could get help from they community with enhancing and fixing their SW. Ports to Linux and Mac would be possible if there were interested users. Most people designing stuff already have CAD programs and would like to reuse their designs. Could be possible if their format was open.
Why do some companies embrace the old fashioned hoarded (M$) software model even when they have little to win and much to lose by it? Idiots! Grrrrr
VMS has process quotas to enable a qualified memory to boot processes off the system when the system runs out of memory. Nothing can stop you from running out of memory. Trust me on this one:)
You can use the PGFLQUO process quota to limit the amount of page file a specific process can take. If a process tries to allocate (such as $EXPREG) too much memory, it will get an error when it hits its process limits. The process can then deal with this the best it can. A properly configured VMS system will not crash because of processes hitting its process quotas. Trust me on this!;-)
(I'm not sure what you mean by boot processes off the system. VMS can swap them out. But it won't kill them. It does not use an OOM killer like some UNIXes do.)
On numerous occasions we managed to write AI apps in LISP that resulted in so much page swapping that VMS simply couldn't find any more virtual memory to swap so it just stopped.
That had to be a mismanaged VMS system. VMS has process quotas to enable a qualified manager to set up his system so that the VMS system never runs out of memory.
Well, most VMS users run on Alpha and has done so since more than ten years. It's not like all VMS users are stuck on VAX and only now has an alternative with Itanium.
Funny, the article does not mention Alphas. Has HP buried that architecture so well?
I haven't read the Possio Patent (and IANAL), so I don't really know if this is a software patent.
But selling a GPL-based (Linux) patent-protected product seems interesting if you look at clause 7 in the GPL.
...For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program...
So a competitor can buy their product. They are then entitled to the source code from Possio since they chose to build on GPLed software. The competitor can now modify the source to fit their own hardware and sell it. If Possio sues for patent infringment, they lose their right to distribute the code in their own product.
I also found this PDF document about Possios US market entry with some patent discussions.
I think that they have figured out that everyone is going to have a mobile phone anyway, but only very few geeks are going to buy PDAs. So they figure that the PDA market is saturated and is not going to grow much, but simple PDA functions in smartphones will grow.
In a Swedish newspaper today (SvD) there was a comment on Sony PDAs. They have a deal with Ericsson to produce mobile phones, and that deal forbids them from adding mobile phone functionality to their PDAs. So it is only logical that Sony will add their previous Clie functions into the Sony Ericsson phones instead.
No, the experience is still way better than Mosaic (been there). And www.bbc.co.uk works just fine. And the Swedish newspaper sites i frequently visit work fine too. And I love privoxy ridding my screen from all those..... animated...... blink....... AD...... flashy...... pictures...... while I'm trying to read the content.
But you are right, I don't want my web to be a rich multimedia experience. I'm more turned on by insightful articles and to-the-point information. (minus marketing adjectives)
Right... so it's time to turn to Struts and JSPs for validation every form on our site.
Yes, because you can't trust the client! You can't trust that the client has javascript turned on. You can't even trust that he is running a web browser. He may be running some cool scripts an POSTing whatever malicious data he thinks would be fun to try.
Really, if it is important to validate your data you need to do it on the server!
I'm sorry... javascript is a requirement on the modern web. If you are afraid to leave it on, you might want to look into switching browsers. Next you'll tell us cookies are "tracking you" and you should turn that off as well.
No, javascript is not essential. All my normal browsing is done with no javascript, flash or cookies, filtered through privoxy (to get rid of ad junk). I run on Linux so there is no Active X or other obnoxious plugins either. If your web site requires flash or javascript to operate, I won't use it. Simple as that. Bad for you, not for me. (But sometimes I just look at the source to figure out the links and cut/paste them to go there anyway.)
The notion of a browser executing random stuff it encounters on the internet is so mind-boggingly dumb and insecure. It's almost as dumb as having a mail-reader that executes stuff that is being sent to it from anyone...
There are a few exceptions; sites that need javascript that I really do want to use. For these, I fire up another browser just for the purpose of entering that site. And close that browser when I'm done.
If you design sites with a wide audience, you may want to ensure that anyone can use the site, from any browser using basic technology (HTML).
If you use javascript, animations or flash, you probably just want to promote something or just be cool. I hate those sites. I love sites with content.
In Sweden, the clothing company H&M made a new brand of T-shirts and underwear named "Logg". Then a family named Logg sued H&M for using their name without permission. The family lost since the name has several meanings (logg in swedish is log in english).
No you can't. Maybe you meant to say trademark, where you can register a name for something in a specific limited field of use. If you get a trademark on a name, you can't stop people for using that name in regular speech or for naming other non-related stuff.
An interesting alternative is to do what VMS does: 4-MAY-2004 No ambiguity when you spell out the month (VMS uses three letter abbreviations). But it's not culture neutral of course...
No, the truth is that Windows is not ready for the internet. Do you need more proof?
1) All windows boxes use the same software and services which creates a good monoculture for viruses to spread in.
2) Why the fuck is that port turned on by default? What the heck is the service doing? Most users don't use that service so it should be turned off by default. sheesh!
3) When I last used Windows (a couple of years ago) it actively made it difficult for me to remove services I didn't want to use, like IE, IM, M$-media player, etc. There were many services that I didn't understand what they were doing, but I couldn't remove them. On Linux I do the opposite. I install a slim minimal server, and then add the services I want to use and understand. This is how it should be done.
Why all the talk about how Linux is not ready for the desktop (it is, it's what I use all the time) when the truth is that Windows is not ready for the internet. This is demonstrated monthly.
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Because your CF card has more than one chip inside?
Imagine playing the mechanical pong game on yor TV, where you can actually see that it is not quite an electronic game!
Get one that
has low MHz rating - needs less power
has no fan - is silent
takes a flash memory - no need for hard disk (yet more silent and low power)
There are also models with more than 1 NIC - great for firewalls
Also see here. Or here.
Is it like this?
Surely there is a computer inside that controls that case!
You need a professional soundcard because:
1) You may want to record good quality audio. Maybe from several sources simultaneously.
2) You may want to listen to what you are doing before burning a CD.
3) You need a professional soundcard with latency of a few ms (and good drivers) so that you can play a note on a MIDI keyboard and not having to wait half a second to hear it from your softsynth and effects.
Do these two clown companies think they are selling hardware or software? They have a great hardware idea, but why ruin it all by requiring their proprietary Windows-only "easy-to-use" software?
They are giving the software away anyway, so why don't they go open source? And use a standardized documented file format? They could get help from they community with enhancing and fixing their SW. Ports to Linux and Mac would be possible if there were interested users. Most people designing stuff already have CAD programs and would like to reuse their designs. Could be possible if their format was open.
Why do some companies embrace the old fashioned hoarded (M$) software model even when they have little to win and much to lose by it? Idiots! Grrrrr
VMS has process quotas to enable a qualified memory to boot processes off the system when the system runs out of memory. Nothing can stop you from running out of memory. Trust me on this one :)
;-)
You can use the PGFLQUO process quota to limit the amount of page file a specific process can take. If a process tries to allocate (such as $EXPREG) too much memory, it will get an error when it hits its process limits. The process can then deal with this the best it can. A properly configured VMS system will not crash because of processes hitting its process quotas. Trust me on this!
(I'm not sure what you mean by boot processes off the system. VMS can swap them out. But it won't kill them. It does not use an OOM killer like some UNIXes do.)
This is an old story but it seems fitting here.
On numerous occasions we managed to write AI apps in LISP that resulted in so much page swapping that VMS simply couldn't find any more virtual memory to swap so it just stopped.
That had to be a mismanaged VMS system. VMS has process quotas to enable a qualified manager to set up his system so that the VMS system never runs out of memory.
Well, most VMS users run on Alpha and has done so since more than ten years. It's not like all VMS users are stuck on VAX and only now has an alternative with Itanium.
Funny, the article does not mention Alphas. Has HP buried that architecture so well?
What about median income (Nigeria vs. South Africa)?
The GDP per capita is
Nigeria: $800
South Africa: $10700
There are other indicators there that may give a better view of the distribution of the wealth in the countries.
I don't think it is +5 Funny to refer to South African school children as monkeys.
I haven't read the Possio Patent (and IANAL), so I don't really know if this is a software patent.
...For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program...
But selling a GPL-based (Linux) patent-protected product seems interesting if you look at clause 7 in the GPL.
So a competitor can buy their product. They are then entitled to the source code from Possio since they chose to build on GPLed software. The competitor can now modify the source to fit their own hardware and sell it. If Possio sues for patent infringment, they lose their right to distribute the code in their own product.
I also found this PDF document about Possios US market entry with some patent discussions.
I think that they have figured out that everyone is going to have a mobile phone anyway, but only very few geeks are going to buy PDAs. So they figure that the PDA market is saturated and is not going to grow much, but simple PDA functions in smartphones will grow.
In a Swedish newspaper today (SvD) there was a comment on Sony PDAs. They have a deal with Ericsson to produce mobile phones, and that deal forbids them from adding mobile phone functionality to their PDAs. So it is only logical that Sony will add their previous Clie functions into the Sony Ericsson phones instead.
No, the experience is still way better than Mosaic (been there). And www.bbc.co.uk works just fine. And the Swedish newspaper sites i frequently visit work fine too. And I love privoxy ridding my screen from all those..... animated...... blink....... AD...... flashy...... pictures...... while I'm trying to read the content.
But you are right, I don't want my web to be a rich multimedia experience. I'm more turned on by insightful articles and to-the-point information. (minus marketing adjectives)
Right... so it's time to turn to Struts and JSPs for validation every form on our site.
Yes, because you can't trust the client! You can't trust that the client has javascript turned on. You can't even trust that he is running a web browser. He may be running some cool scripts an POSTing whatever malicious data he thinks would be fun to try.
Really, if it is important to validate your data you need to do it on the server!
I'm sorry... javascript is a requirement on the modern web. If you are afraid to leave it on, you might want to look into switching browsers. Next you'll tell us cookies are "tracking you" and you should turn that off as well.
No, javascript is not essential. All my normal browsing is done with no javascript, flash or cookies, filtered through privoxy (to get rid of ad junk). I run on Linux so there is no Active X or other obnoxious plugins either. If your web site requires flash or javascript to operate, I won't use it. Simple as that. Bad for you, not for me. (But sometimes I just look at the source to figure out the links and cut/paste them to go there anyway.)
The notion of a browser executing random stuff it encounters on the internet is so mind-boggingly dumb and insecure. It's almost as dumb as having a mail-reader that executes stuff that is being sent to it from anyone...
There are a few exceptions; sites that need javascript that I really do want to use. For these, I fire up another browser just for the purpose of entering that site. And close that browser when I'm done.
If you design sites with a wide audience, you may want to ensure that anyone can use the site, from any browser using basic technology (HTML).
If you use javascript, animations or flash, you probably just want to promote something or just be cool. I hate those sites. I love sites with content.
Am I the only one that thinks of Root Mean Square when I see RMS?
Well, I think of OpenVMS Record Management Services which, as I hope you all know, is what you use to access files in VMS.
This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, a DOS emulator.
Not quite. Bochs is a IA-32 (x86) emulator that allows other architectures (such as ARM commonly used in handheld devices) to emulate a IA-32 chip.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/26/first_inte ger_patented/
That's a satire. Or do you have a patent number that's not secret?
In Sweden, the clothing company H&M made a new brand of T-shirts and underwear named "Logg". Then a family named Logg sued H&M for using their name without permission. The family lost since the name has several meanings (logg in swedish is log in english).
(swedish reference)
in the US, you can even patent a number...
No you can't. Maybe you meant to say trademark, where you can register a name for something in a specific limited field of use. If you get a trademark on a name, you can't stop people for using that name in regular speech or for naming other non-related stuff.
So if the computer is big enough, the garbage-in, garbage-out problem disappears?
We can't predict the weather for the next week, but doing it for the next 50 years might work if we only can get a computer big enough?
Why can't people use ISO date format? That is the silly month/day/year format.
The ISO format is YYYY-MM-DD. Big-endian, like how we write other numbers, or times. Sorts easily.
See the ISO date format campaign.
An interesting alternative is to do what VMS does: 4-MAY-2004 No ambiguity when you spell out the month (VMS uses three letter abbreviations). But it's not culture neutral of course...
No, the truth is that Windows is not ready for the internet. Do you need more proof?
1) All windows boxes use the same software and services which creates a good monoculture for viruses to spread in.
2) Why the fuck is that port turned on by default? What the heck is the service doing? Most users don't use that service so it should be turned off by default. sheesh!
3) When I last used Windows (a couple of years ago) it actively made it difficult for me to remove services I didn't want to use, like IE, IM, M$-media player, etc. There were many services that I didn't understand what they were doing, but I couldn't remove them. On Linux I do the opposite. I install a slim minimal server, and then add the services I want to use and understand. This is how it should be done.
Why all the talk about how Linux is not ready for the desktop (it is, it's what I use all the time) when the truth is that Windows is not ready for the internet. This is demonstrated monthly.