Excuse me, but wasn't the Enquirer the same newspaper that reported "Two-headed Bat Boy Appears with Jesus in Iraqi Sandstorm!"? And here we are, arguing of the journalistic integrity of slashdo...
...until you start talking about the enormous quantities of radiation something like the sun gives off? Apparently this is no great cause for alarm or we'd have heard this before. Anyways,.05% sounds like a large amount of steady change to me.
I was duped into believeing Dvorak might have a few good points to make, but it was really all an attempt to get his page Slashdotted and sell lots of banner ads. For once, shame on you people for actually R'ing TFA!;-)
Check this out, Blockquothe the Article:
Scenario: Apple will announce its Intel initiative by showing a transition machine that uses both the Intel and Motorola processors. "So current Mac owners will not have to worry." This will be a high-end machine optimized to run Photoshop. Apple is adept at creating dual-processor architectures, so this won't be too radical. We've heard rumors of this kind of scenario for some time, under the code name Marklar.
This goes on to speculate Apple will use Itanium chips. Without even getting into endian issues (which make buses and shared disk & memory slow and a pain in the ass), this is a huge transition from their current invenstment in PPC-only motherboards, and I imagine it will be power hungry, hot, and probably noisy, considering that current Apple chips needed a special case for cooling and Intel's chips are still known for running hotter (Sidenote: I'm unsure if this applies to the Itanium).
And let's not leave out price? An Apple box with (by then I'd assume it to be) a G5 AND an Intel Itanium? This would sell for $16,000 with no hard drives at minimum. Itanium is too expensive, and at this point designing a dual-architecture mobo is just not worth the trouble. A high end machine to run Photoshop? Guess again, most Mac users don't use Photoshop or anything of the sort, and Apple sure doesn't center their design process around anything Adobe does. And does anyone remeber Marklar having anything to do with dual architecture? I thought it was a software port of the closed-source elements of OS X?
Never trust a guy named after a weird keyboard layout.
Interesting story to note, however: Apple has already made Intel x86 compatable machines! Check out Apple Technical Note 1076, last updated Oct. 1st, 1996. Most notable: Apple created Intel PCs on PCI and NuBus cards (which were at the time fast enough to be a reasonable design) and actually shipped one bundled with the PowerMac 7200. From the Technote:
The PC Compatibility (or DOS Compatibility) systems currently supported by this messaging architecture are the Centris 610 DOS Compatible, PowerMac 6100/66 DOS Compatible, the Quadra 630 DOS Compatible, and any PCI-based Macintosh which includes the most recent PCI-based 100Mhz Pentium and Cyrix 5x86 PC Compatibility Cards. Currently, the only system bundled with the PCI- based cards is the PowerMac 7200/120. All of these systems must be running version 1.5 of the PC Compatibility Software or later, which includes the driver that allows the messaging system to function.
The messaging system is implemented as a 16-bit DOS real-mode driver and is used extensively in these current products to allow the PC to have access to the shared devices on the Mac (HD, CD, floppy, etc.), networking communications, folder sharing, and clipboard support.
Apple might be researching this whole Intel thing, and they even have prior experience in the area. I believe, however, that any such effort is a backup plan, so when IBMs yields are low enough to make the 970 too expensive and Motorola starts pushing clock speeds into the high 2.7GHz range while each new chip they release gets progressively slower, Apple isn't up shit creek without a paddle.
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So, let's hold a contest. You've heard of 64k demo contests, right?
Let's see who can write the most functional 64k office suite.:-D
I dont' think major Internet data centers with hundreds (thousands?) of giant Cisco racks everywhere are all hooked together with cable modems, dude. This isn't for your home, this it to get teh traffic from one end of the Earth to the other efficiently and quickly.
At least he didn't try to make any "Jumanji" puns...
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Hmmm, interesting point. Thing is, the ex-Soviets aren't exactly the ones creating the weapons and stockpiling them, so perhaps that's why we look at the two-bit Iraqi who's looking to become not quite to two-bit anymore, he's a more immidiate threat. It wouldn't matter if we cut off his source because he'd already have what he has, and that is in direct violation of a UN treaty.
Marathon (a DOOM-like game for Macintosh) from Bungie had this feature durring network play: hold down the Tilde (~) key and you could yell into your microphone at whoever else was playing. I never got the chance however, as my lowly 33mHz Performa 400 at the time really had no one to network with:-/
Now that Bungie is MS's game development crew, this doesn't suprise me. Let's just hope MS doesnt try to patent it, and if they do, someone please throw the VoIP prior art at them.
We are in full compliance. (Presently)
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It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We must make war on him because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing for someone who actually commands an army to say that.
Then what, exactly do we do? If we let him go and this man's family was among those to die when Hussien finally strikes (not nessisarily against the US, say they lived in Israel or Kuwait) , he'd probably be the first one screaming about how this "all could have been prevented but we wussed out."
Although I must say, I'm gald people are becomming more active in their political opinions, I just wish that many of them where more informed.
The US already has plans to invade Saudi Arabia after the Iraq campaign as part of a larger goal of obtaining a majority share of the world's energy supplies.
Proof, please?
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How can you honestly think attacking Iraq will take a away terrorist training grounds?
Once Iraq is contolled by someone reasonable enough to realize that Islam != Jihad against the West (or at least shouldn't be) they will take steps to prevent terroists from training there? Maybe? Just a thought?
Most terrorists operate quite succesfully without resorting to training in friendly countries. Timothy McVeigh succeeded within the US itself.
Yea, and I can fill a truck with fertilizer and a detonator and park it in front of a federal building, too. Big whoop. Timothy McVeigh was as big an asshole as the other terrorists. Don't blow people up, start a peaceful campaign. If that fails, fuck them over, that takes brains to do fair and square. But killing only makes you look bad. For instance, if Osama Bil Laden was a protester and a leader who stood up and got an entire nation behind him, perhaps we would have listened a little bit? Embassador Bil Laden sound a little wiser and more respectable? But not, the bastard has to go and kill because it "proves" something. Allah must be going into coniptions.
Anybody who thinks this will do anything to reduce terrorism is extremely naive and deluded.
Yea, because all the Hussien funded groups will have no problems with cash flow. The new U.S. "puppet government" as it has been called will simply keep giving them money. They'll build some anthrax bombs, too, just for giggles. (well...actually, knock on wood for that one)
As it stands, there are many sources of bio and chemical weapons, some of which originated in the US.
I'm sick of hearing this. Yes, it's all true. Let's clean up our mess before it's too late. Sucks but would you rather this psycho dictator who kills his own people use them?
Disgruntled and poor ex-Soviets are more of a concern than some two-bit Iraqi.
If the Soviets are so poor, shouldn't they be spending their money on, oh, I dunno, SURVIVAL, rather than organizing a strike on the US? And if you mean all those little nations, please, I think they'd rather fix the troubles they have before attempting to piss off the largest armed forces in the world. Unless they're extremely naive.
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Yea, gotta love all the epic music and the quick edits, it's like watching a movie trailer.
No offense, but did you forget high school or where you one of the exceptional kids who shouldn't be speaking for the average person?
Honestly,the books need a change. Perhaps this isn't the correct way to go about it, but I would have learned more if I could have stayed awake while studying.
Actually, no, I know exactly what I meant. Nyquist creates a roof at 1/2 the sampling frequency, specifically because if you need to record a 22.05kHz tone, for example, sampling at 44.1 kHz is the slowest you can do it because at, say, 22.05kHz sampling freq. you would catch the same point in the cycle everyt time and end up with a big flat line.
However, we're not sampling at 96kHz now because some magic allows us to hear 48kHz sounds. One of the reasons is yes, quantizational distortion is reduced, which is what I was refering to in the first place, not the Nyquist ceiling. The other reason is that even though we cannot precieve sounds above about 20kHz or so (depending), such sounds still exist, and therefore can alter the dynamics of other sounds which may actually be audiable. If these high frequencies are stripped out while recording by a filter or (with shoddy sampling methods) are simply killed by the Nyquist ceiling, they no longer affect the remaining frequencies, and the sound is not as accurate as it could be.
To wrap it up, I know about Nyquist, I was refering to reduction in quantization and an increase in harmonic accuracy. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.
Not that I dont think it looks absolutely horrific, but for the record I've found most of that translucent plastic they use on everythign from iMacs to whatever the hell else they wanna make "cool" to be very durable.
Once in high school, an iMac fell off a desk in the lab and bounced off the floor. Crashed the dsik real good, but the rest of the machne was unharmed. *shrug*
More samples per second = higher sampling accuracy = less distortion = smoother and more realistic representation of the sounds you can actually hear.
There are more reasons for upping the sampling rate than increasing spectrum range. I;d love this card but from what I've read here in the comments there is no ASIO or Mac support so looks like I'm still in the market:-/
The RIAA has been yelping and screaming ( "OW! My profit!!!" ) ever since they (well, their affiliates) brought us fabulous new talent like 98 Degrees and Sum41.
"Gee, Bob, I can't understand why people aren't buying the CDs, these bands are practically clones of the last big hits we signed... Ahh, must be those God-damned pirates again! Betty! Can you get my lobbying group on the line, please? We got some ass to kick!"
Owning people isn't that strange.
I mean the majority of people in America have to rent themselves to a master for 8 hours a day to feed their family so it's not that strange (emphasis mine)
We rent, that's correct. If we where owned, we'd be forced. Oops, look like you've own3d yourself.
I have never once had a question about MySQL the docs did not answer, and I learned with MySQL from knowing absolutely nothing about databases. So, tell us, oh all knowing troll, what exactly are the MySQL docs missing?
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Excuse me, but wasn't the Enquirer the same newspaper that reported "Two-headed Bat Boy Appears with Jesus in Iraqi Sandstorm!"? And here we are, arguing of the journalistic integrity of slashdo...
...the what?
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(*cough* Bush Administration *cough*)
...until you start talking about the enormous quantities of radiation something like the sun gives off? Apparently this is no great cause for alarm or we'd have heard this before. Anyways,
I was duped into believeing Dvorak might have a few good points to make, but it was really all an attempt to get his page Slashdotted and sell lots of banner ads. For once, shame on you people for actually R'ing TFA!
Check this out, Blockquothe the Article:This goes on to speculate Apple will use Itanium chips. Without even getting into endian issues (which make buses and shared disk & memory slow and a pain in the ass), this is a huge transition from their current invenstment in PPC-only motherboards, and I imagine it will be power hungry, hot, and probably noisy, considering that current Apple chips needed a special case for cooling and Intel's chips are still known for running hotter (Sidenote: I'm unsure if this applies to the Itanium).
And let's not leave out price? An Apple box with (by then I'd assume it to be) a G5 AND an Intel Itanium? This would sell for $16,000 with no hard drives at minimum. Itanium is too expensive, and at this point designing a dual-architecture mobo is just not worth the trouble. A high end machine to run Photoshop? Guess again, most Mac users don't use Photoshop or anything of the sort, and Apple sure doesn't center their design process around anything Adobe does. And does anyone remeber Marklar having anything to do with dual architecture? I thought it was a software port of the closed-source elements of OS X?
Never trust a guy named after a weird keyboard layout.
Interesting story to note, however: Apple has already made Intel x86 compatable machines! Check out Apple Technical Note 1076, last updated Oct. 1st, 1996. Most notable: Apple created Intel PCs on PCI and NuBus cards (which were at the time fast enough to be a reasonable design) and actually shipped one bundled with the PowerMac 7200. From the Technote:Apple might be researching this whole Intel thing, and they even have prior experience in the area. I believe, however, that any such effort is a backup plan, so when IBMs yields are low enough to make the 970 too expensive and Motorola starts pushing clock speeds into the high 2.7GHz range while each new chip they release gets progressively slower, Apple isn't up shit creek without a paddle.
So, let's hold a contest. You've heard of 64k demo contests, right?
Let's see who can write the most functional 64k office suite.
I dont' think major Internet data centers with hundreds (thousands?) of giant Cisco racks everywhere are all hooked together with cable modems, dude. This isn't for your home, this it to get teh traffic from one end of the Earth to the other efficiently and quickly.
...because they cut everyone off?
I also remember "Name That Stain"...
At least he didn't try to make any "Jumanji" puns...
Hmmm, interesting point. Thing is, the ex-Soviets aren't exactly the ones creating the weapons and stockpiling them, so perhaps that's why we look at the two-bit Iraqi who's looking to become not quite to two-bit anymore, he's a more immidiate threat. It wouldn't matter if we cut off his source because he'd already have what he has, and that is in direct violation of a UN treaty.
Just my two bits.
Marathon (a DOOM-like game for Macintosh) from Bungie had this feature durring network play: hold down the Tilde (~) key and you could yell into your microphone at whoever else was playing. I never got the chance however, as my lowly 33mHz Performa 400 at the time really had no one to network with
Now that Bungie is MS's game development crew, this doesn't suprise me. Let's just hope MS doesnt try to patent it, and if they do, someone please throw the VoIP prior art at them.
Twirlip of the Mists tells all in great detail.
It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We must make war on him because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing for someone who actually commands an army to say that.
Then what, exactly do we do? If we let him go and this man's family was among those to die when Hussien finally strikes (not nessisarily against the US, say they lived in Israel or Kuwait) , he'd probably be the first one screaming about how this "all could have been prevented but we wussed out."
Although I must say, I'm gald people are becomming more active in their political opinions, I just wish that many of them where more informed.
The US already has plans to invade Saudi Arabia after the Iraq campaign as part of a larger goal of obtaining a majority share of the world's energy supplies.
Proof, please?
How can you honestly think attacking Iraq will take a away terrorist training grounds?
Once Iraq is contolled by someone reasonable enough to realize that Islam != Jihad against the West (or at least shouldn't be) they will take steps to prevent terroists from training there? Maybe? Just a thought?
Most terrorists operate quite succesfully without resorting to training in friendly countries. Timothy McVeigh succeeded within the US itself.
Yea, and I can fill a truck with fertilizer and a detonator and park it in front of a federal building, too. Big whoop. Timothy McVeigh was as big an asshole as the other terrorists. Don't blow people up, start a peaceful campaign. If that fails, fuck them over, that takes brains to do fair and square. But killing only makes you look bad. For instance, if Osama Bil Laden was a protester and a leader who stood up and got an entire nation behind him, perhaps we would have listened a little bit? Embassador Bil Laden sound a little wiser and more respectable? But not, the bastard has to go and kill because it "proves" something. Allah must be going into coniptions.
Anybody who thinks this will do anything to reduce terrorism is extremely naive and deluded.
Yea, because all the Hussien funded groups will have no problems with cash flow. The new U.S. "puppet government" as it has been called will simply keep giving them money. They'll build some anthrax bombs, too, just for giggles. (well...actually, knock on wood for that one)
As it stands, there are many sources of bio and chemical weapons, some of which originated in the US.
I'm sick of hearing this. Yes, it's all true. Let's clean up our mess before it's too late. Sucks but would you rather this psycho dictator who kills his own people use them?
Disgruntled and poor ex-Soviets are more of a concern than some two-bit Iraqi.
If the Soviets are so poor, shouldn't they be spending their money on, oh, I dunno, SURVIVAL, rather than organizing a strike on the US? And if you mean all those little nations, please, I think they'd rather fix the troubles they have before attempting to piss off the largest armed forces in the world. Unless they're extremely naive.
Yea, gotta love all the epic music and the quick edits, it's like watching a movie trailer.
What have we become in 200 short years?
No offense, but did you forget high school or where you one of the exceptional kids who shouldn't be speaking for the average person?
Honestly,the books need a change. Perhaps this isn't the correct way to go about it, but I would have learned more if I could have stayed awake while studying.
(TINFB - This is not flamebait)
Actually, no, I know exactly what I meant. Nyquist creates a roof at 1/2 the sampling frequency, specifically because if you need to record a 22.05kHz tone, for example, sampling at 44.1 kHz is the slowest you can do it because at, say, 22.05kHz sampling freq. you would catch the same point in the cycle everyt time and end up with a big flat line.
However, we're not sampling at 96kHz now because some magic allows us to hear 48kHz sounds. One of the reasons is yes, quantizational distortion is reduced, which is what I was refering to in the first place, not the Nyquist ceiling. The other reason is that even though we cannot precieve sounds above about 20kHz or so (depending), such sounds still exist, and therefore can alter the dynamics of other sounds which may actually be audiable. If these high frequencies are stripped out while recording by a filter or (with shoddy sampling methods) are simply killed by the Nyquist ceiling, they no longer affect the remaining frequencies, and the sound is not as accurate as it could be.
To wrap it up, I know about Nyquist, I was refering to reduction in quantization and an increase in harmonic accuracy. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.
...or maybe Insightful?
Not that I dont think it looks absolutely horrific, but for the record I've found most of that translucent plastic they use on everythign from iMacs to whatever the hell else they wanna make "cool" to be very durable.
Once in high school, an iMac fell off a desk in the lab and bounced off the floor. Crashed the dsik real good, but the rest of the machne was unharmed. *shrug*
Dude, you made my day with "Leisure Suit Linus", that was too damn funny.
More samples per second = higher sampling accuracy = less distortion = smoother and more realistic representation of the sounds you can actually hear.
There are more reasons for upping the sampling rate than increasing spectrum range. I;d love this card but from what I've read here in the comments there is no ASIO or Mac support so looks like I'm still in the market
The RIAA has been yelping and screaming ( "OW! My profit!!!" ) ever since they (well, their affiliates) brought us fabulous new talent like 98 Degrees and Sum41.
"Gee, Bob, I can't understand why people aren't buying the CDs, these bands are practically clones of the last big hits we signed... Ahh, must be those God-damned pirates again! Betty! Can you get my lobbying group on the line, please? We got some ass to kick!"
Owning people isn't that strange. I mean the majority of people in America have to rent themselves to a master for 8 hours a day to feed their family so it's not that strange
(emphasis mine)
We rent, that's correct. If we where owned, we'd be forced. Oops, look like you've own3d yourself.
I have never once had a question about MySQL the docs did not answer, and I learned with MySQL from knowing absolutely nothing about databases. So, tell us, oh all knowing troll, what exactly are the MySQL docs missing?