Your 120 gig hard drive is 120 gigbytes, as advertised. That translates to about 112 gibibytes. The companies who are misrepresenting the size of drives are the ones who write software that use "gigabyte" to mean "gibibyte".
Consider my newest hard drive. Western Digital, who manufactured it, says it's 120GB. Windows 2000, written by Microsoft, tells me it's 111GB. Wieghing in the fact that it's slightly over 120,000,000,000 bytes, it's apparent to me that Western Digital is right and Microsoft is wrong. Had Windows 2000 been prgrammed to say "GiB" instead of "GB", Microsoft would be right as well.
Anyone who wants to check this, go a London Drugs in Canada, where they don't include the levy in the sticker price (unlike pretty much everyone else). Buy a $29.99 spindle of 50 data blanks, and watch as the price jumps to $40.49 before taxes ($0.21 * 50 = $10.50).
I believe the "higher frequencies run along the outside of the line" refers to the skin effect. This is where since less magnetic flux is threaded by the current along the outer edge of the conductor than the current in the center, meaning the outer area has less inductance (Inductance = magnetic flux threaded per unit current). AC currents prefer paths with less inductive impedance, and since inductive impedance increases with frequency, the tendency for AC currents to flow more in the outer area of the conductor is more pronounced at higher frequencies.
Only when the majority of a population gets it wrong does the language change
The majority of the population already gets it "wrong". I've heard the phrase "beg the question" used numerous times in everyday conversation. And each and every single fucking time it was used to mean "raise the question".
The number of people I've heard use "beg the question" in the way you claim is right is ZERO. And I don't mean zero as in "such a small minority it might as well be zero". I mean literally zero. So quit being such a pedantic little pissant and deal with it.
Uh, no. In my roms folder I count 997 games that are over 1MB in size. 187 of those are over 10MB. A complete collection of MAME games will take about 9GB.
MAME even plays a few games that were hard drive-based. The biggest game MAME supports is Maximum Force, whose compressed hard drive image file (.CHD) is about 1.1GB, obviously too big for a CD.
Ehhh, Crazy Browser automatically arranges my bookmarks alphabetically on me, which I find extremely annoying. As for MyIE2, I had a hard time finding a fast download mirror of the latest version, and you can't use IE's Quick Search shortcuts in it, making it utterly useless to me.
The snippet you quote is from the cmd640 driver, which covers only the chipset by the same name. Subsequent CMD chips, including the 649, use the cmd64x driver and are not fucked.
It's been a while since I saw it, and I don't even know what episode it was in, but my favorite went something like this:
Ferengi Receptionist: Have a seat. [Holds out his hand] Quark: How much?
Ferengi Receptionist: Three slips of latinum.
Quark: I'll stand.
Ferengi Receptionist: That'll be two slips of latinum.
ffdshow is an open-source MPEG-4 video decoder that handles all of the various DivX:-) variants as well as XVid and MPEG4v1/2/3. The big upside of it is that it's easy to install and is far more reliable and less intrusive than the poorly-assembled codec packs floating around out there. If you only want to view movies made with those codecs, then it's by far the best choice.
You mean "$5 plus the increase in tuition incurred by the school's deal with Microsoft". No way does Microsoft just give such low prices without obtaining the revenue somehow else.
Copyright infringement is a civil offense, thus "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply. Besides, the evidence the xvid people gives is quite enough for many people here to make a judgement.
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If this were true, DIVX would be alive and well.
The difference here being that people were well-informed about DIVX's drawbacks because of the relatively uninhibited alternative that was DVD. The only "alternatives" to buying CDs (P2P programs & file sharing in general) are legally shaky at best. They won't be hearing about broken CDs from store clerks because there's no available legal alternative.
The buying public only makes the right decisions when they are fully informed.
The Tektronix Phaser 300i driver for Windows produces nice Postscript output that, when converted using Ghostscript, produces very small PDFs. Using it, I turned a 1800kB Word document (with many diagrams) to a 144kB PDF.
I assume so. Since PSE is supported in Athlons I would think the kernel people would enable it for a K7 compile.
I would think that only people who compile their own kernels and those who use Mandrake would be affected by this since pretty much everyone else compiles for 386, which would turn off the use of the PSE capability.
Because the system bus is 100MHz (albeit quad-pumped), and therefore PC2100/2400/2700 memory would still be running at 200MHz (the speed of PC1600 memory).
(The article is slashdotted, so I'm assuming by your post that they chose the SBLive for the machine).
The Linux support for the Santa Cruz is nowhere near that of the SBLive.
First, the SBLive will give you hardware mixing in Linux, so there's no need to worry about which apps use which sound daemon. The CS4630 driver doesn't do this.
Second, The sound quality of the SBLive in Linux is much better than in Windows. Chalk that up to the Linux emu10k1 driver guys who have created better DSP patches for the emu10k1 than the guys at Creative.
Finally, there's no evidence that the SBLive's non-compliance has had adverse effects in any OS other than Windows, at least not that I've seen or heard. I've heard many testimonials from people with the SBLive/686B combo who have no problems in Linux.
Your gripes would've been applicable had this been a Windows box, but it isn't.
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Ah. Unfortunately, US keyboards don't have an AltGr key.
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Consider my newest hard drive. Western Digital, who manufactured it, says it's 120GB. Windows 2000, written by Microsoft, tells me it's 111GB. Wieghing in the fact that it's slightly over 120,000,000,000 bytes, it's apparent to me that Western Digital is right and Microsoft is wrong. Had Windows 2000 been prgrammed to say "GiB" instead of "GB", Microsoft would be right as well.
Currently the charge raises the price of data CDs by 21 cents and raises the price of audio CD-Rs and CD-RWs by 77 cents.
(From http://www.ccfda.ca/subsections/eng_faqs.html
Anyone who wants to check this, go a London Drugs in Canada, where they don't include the levy in the sticker price (unlike pretty much everyone else). Buy a $29.99 spindle of 50 data blanks, and watch as the price jumps to $40.49 before taxes ($0.21 * 50 = $10.50).
No, zip makes zip files. compress makes .Z files.
I believe the "higher frequencies run along the outside of the line" refers to the skin effect. This is where since less magnetic flux is threaded by the current along the outer edge of the conductor than the current in the center, meaning the outer area has less inductance (Inductance = magnetic flux threaded per unit current). AC currents prefer paths with less inductive impedance, and since inductive impedance increases with frequency, the tendency for AC currents to flow more in the outer area of the conductor is more pronounced at higher frequencies.
The majority of the population already gets it "wrong". I've heard the phrase "beg the question" used numerous times in everyday conversation. And each and every single fucking time it was used to mean "raise the question".
The number of people I've heard use "beg the question" in the way you claim is right is ZERO. And I don't mean zero as in "such a small minority it might as well be zero". I mean literally zero. So quit being such a pedantic little pissant and deal with it.
...since all I share is FLACs and therefore nobody ever downloads from me. Yay for alternative formats!
Uh, no. In my roms folder I count 997 games that are over 1MB in size. 187 of those are over 10MB. A complete collection of MAME games will take about 9GB.
MAME even plays a few games that were hard drive-based. The biggest game MAME supports is Maximum Force, whose compressed hard drive image file (.CHD) is about 1.1GB, obviously too big for a CD.
Ehhh, Crazy Browser automatically arranges my bookmarks alphabetically on me, which I find extremely annoying. As for MyIE2, I had a hard time finding a fast download mirror of the latest version, and you can't use IE's Quick Search shortcuts in it, making it utterly useless to me.
The snippet you quote is from the cmd640 driver, which covers only the chipset by the same name. Subsequent CMD chips, including the 649, use the cmd64x driver and are not fucked.
Ferengi Receptionist: Have a seat. [Holds out his hand]
Quark: How much?
Ferengi Receptionist: Three slips of latinum.
Quark: I'll stand.
Ferengi Receptionist: That'll be two slips of latinum.
This is all you need.
Do also point out that LAME, the MP3 encoder that CDex includes, is not only open source but is also the best MP3 encoder there is, period.
ffdshow is an open-source MPEG-4 video decoder that handles all of the various DivX :-) variants as well as XVid and MPEG4v1/2/3. The big upside of it is that it's easy to install and is far more reliable and less intrusive than the poorly-assembled codec packs floating around out there. If you only want to view movies made with those codecs, then it's by far the best choice.
You mean "$5 plus the increase in tuition incurred by the school's deal with Microsoft". No way does Microsoft just give such low prices without obtaining the revenue somehow else.
Copyright infringement is a civil offense, thus "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply. Besides, the evidence the xvid people gives is quite enough for many people here to make a judgement.
The difference here being that people were well-informed about DIVX's drawbacks because of the relatively uninhibited alternative that was DVD. The only "alternatives" to buying CDs (P2P programs & file sharing in general) are legally shaky at best. They won't be hearing about broken CDs from store clerks because there's no available legal alternative.
The buying public only makes the right decisions when they are fully informed.
Number two, of course if the ice was damaged severely enough, the game would be suspended and postponed.
The Tektronix Phaser 300i driver for Windows produces nice Postscript output that, when converted using Ghostscript, produces very small PDFs. Using it, I turned a 1800kB Word document (with many diagrams) to a 144kB PDF.
Are you sure? The list of AMD identifications is in the AMD Processor recognition application note. See pages 20-21 of the PDF.
I assume so. Since PSE is supported in Athlons I would think the kernel people would enable it for a K7 compile.
I would think that only people who compile their own kernels and those who use Mandrake would be affected by this since pretty much everyone else compiles for 386, which would turn off the use of the PSE capability.
Basically, if you run "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see these:
cpu family: 6
model : 6
stepping : 2
Then you should be safe.
Because the system bus is 100MHz (albeit quad-pumped), and therefore PC2100/2400/2700 memory would still be running at 200MHz (the speed of PC1600 memory).
(The article is slashdotted, so I'm assuming by your post that they chose the SBLive for the machine).
The Linux support for the Santa Cruz is nowhere near that of the SBLive.
First, the SBLive will give you hardware mixing in Linux, so there's no need to worry about which apps use which sound daemon. The CS4630 driver doesn't do this.
Second, The sound quality of the SBLive in Linux is much better than in Windows. Chalk that up to the Linux emu10k1 driver guys who have created better DSP patches for the emu10k1 than the guys at Creative.
Finally, there's no evidence that the SBLive's non-compliance has had adverse effects in any OS other than Windows, at least not that I've seen or heard. I've heard many testimonials from people with the SBLive/686B combo who have no problems in Linux.
Your gripes would've been applicable had this been a Windows box, but it isn't.
Ah. Unfortunately, US keyboards don't have an AltGr key.