Well, since homosexuality is so widespread, it clearly needs to have an evolutionary advantage for the species of some sort. A possible explanation is that having childless adults around makes it more likely for the children of those in their community who breed to survive, and carry on most of the same genes.
In any case, the fact that homosexuality is so widespread despite the fact that fewer of them breed is a pretty damn good indication that "mother nature" is telling them they are a benefit and are there for a reason.
I think the explanation is similar to the existence of grandparents. There's no obvious reason why women live long after their fertile age, but apparently having older and wiser people around, with no young children of their own to look after, is an evolutionary advantage for the population.
Use Proxomitron and be done with it. It runs in WINE for you Linux folks.
Running an essential daemon inside Wine must be the worst idea I've heard since Vista. A native equivalent for Linux is Privoxy, formerly known as Junkbuster.
DVD-R[W] vs. DVD+R[W] vs. DVD-RAM was a true format war, but it has been completely resolved. (ie. -RAM is completely dead and almost all burners on the market support +/-R.)
Many DVD video recorders use -RAM as the preferred format, since it's the only one of these with true random read/write access. You need either -RAM or a hard drive to start watching a video while it's being recorded.
IMHO, the worst problem with scratches is that the data surface is just below the label side, with the bulk of the plastic in CDs being part of the optical path. You can usually polish off scratches on the optical side, but any significant scratches on the label side will destroy the data. DVDs are much better in this sense, as the data layer is exactly in the middle of the disc.
Another stupidity about the audio CD standard is that you've got this nice digital storage space, yet all the metadata is stored on liner notes only. Surely it wouldn't have hurt to add some kind of metadata into the spec, even if most early players hadn't been able to use it.
You see, it's like a car with a banana in its radiator...
I recall a MacGyver episode where they patch the bullet holes in a car radiator with a couple of eggs, as that stuff solidifies easily. That, in turn, reminds me of vegan baking where people often replace eggs with bananas. So, it's a perfect vegan MacGyver analogy!
But if you do the math, you'll see that the narrower those filters are, the slower the maximum slew rate (rate of change) of the volume of highest frequency can be - that's another way of saying that they have to ring.
In other words, no matter how fine your digital filter is, you still can't beat Fourier. Any multiplication in frequency space is a convolution in time, i.e. blurring. This is why I avoid filtering/equalization as much as possible when working with music.
It's simply a more efficient way of encoding exactly the same thing - by, rather than encoding left and right channels, encoding a sum and difference [usually known as M and S for Mid and Side] of the left and right channels.
I second this. This is a lossless stage, and most lossless encoders use it in addition to other compression methods.
Then again, this is one of these audiophile discussions where you can expect someone to claim that wav sounds better than flac, since the former is not compressed...;)
I'd be glad to have any kind of 4-way SMP system. Whether they're all on different chips or all on the same, I'd still get 4 CPUs of processing power. Of course, inter-CPU communication makes a difference in certain applications, but people have worked with traditional SMP systems for decades, and we know how to make good use of them. Putting them on the same die won't solve the basic problems of parallelization.
Kuka puri?-) Ajattelin, että ulkomaisen kielen käyttö olisi sopiva vastatrolli, jolla voisi parhaimmilaan saada jonkin jänskän Funny+Flamebait -moderoinnin, riippumatta siitä mitä sillä kielellä kirjoittaisi.
Vitun anonyymi paskiainen. Sinänsä kyllä ihan hyvä idea, että englanninkielinen maailma voisi käpertyä omaan pikku verkkoonsa ja käyttää kunnon kaupallisia amerikkalaisia käyttiksiä ja palvoa sitä yhtä ainoaa jumalaa. Muu maailma saisi tyytyä johonkin säälittävään Linuxiin ja ajatella omilla säälittävillä aivoillaan.
It is a shame some old dogs are not able to learn new tricks.
Agreed. I believe geeks in general like to learn new things, just for the sake of learning. However, I do appreciate the skiing/snowboarding analogy for different OSes, since I learned downhill skiing as a kid, and snowboarding in my late teens. The two are unexpectedly quite different, and you have to forget about one when learning the other.
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For digital media like DVD, porn was a huge deal because it was difficult to obtain discretely otherwise.
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Moreover, Blu-Ray is much easier to remember and pronounce than something like httpd, or whatever it was.
With a decent external mic and some extra plug in storage you've also got the making of a fantastic field recorder/editor.
The internal sound cards in laptops are usually terrible, and this one cannot be much better than the average. With the one in my Amilo Pro V2020, I can hear hard drive activity quite clearly, and there's a significant bass attenuation that was probably made purposefully to mitigate this problem. I use a proper USB sound card, which in addition to better sound quality gives MIDI interfaces and a very minimal mixer for extra sound sources.
Then again, I need to use a laptop as a full music workstation, so this cheap one wouldn't work anyway. For starters, a "decent mic" usually means XLR with phantom power. On the other hand I'd love to have a small and cheap laptop for many other applications, but it's hard to really justify owning so many computers, especially with a student budget where $200 worth of food and drink go a long way.
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I for one don't welcome our new global warming overlords.
But only because you mean nutritional fiber, not optical.
Opera is closed source software. "Seriously, why people choose Linux or BSD is beyond me." That's enough of a reason for many people.
Speaking of Firefox extensions, I don't use any of them, so there goes another point about installation time and effort.
Neither of these is an acronym. I can't imagine how you'd pronounce 'odf' or 'ooxml' as a word.
I think the explanation is similar to the existence of grandparents. There's no obvious reason why women live long after their fertile age, but apparently having older and wiser people around, with no young children of their own to look after, is an evolutionary advantage for the population.
Running an essential daemon inside Wine must be the worst idea I've heard since Vista. A native equivalent for Linux is Privoxy, formerly known as Junkbuster.
Many DVD video recorders use -RAM as the preferred format, since it's the only one of these with true random read/write access. You need either -RAM or a hard drive to start watching a video while it's being recorded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd-ram#Advantages_of _DVD-RAM
IMHO, the worst problem with scratches is that the data surface is just below the label side, with the bulk of the plastic in CDs being part of the optical path. You can usually polish off scratches on the optical side, but any significant scratches on the label side will destroy the data. DVDs are much better in this sense, as the data layer is exactly in the middle of the disc.
Another stupidity about the audio CD standard is that you've got this nice digital storage space, yet all the metadata is stored on liner notes only. Surely it wouldn't have hurt to add some kind of metadata into the spec, even if most early players hadn't been able to use it.
Russian inquisition expects NOBODY!
I recall a MacGyver episode where they patch the bullet holes in a car radiator with a couple of eggs, as that stuff solidifies easily. That, in turn, reminds me of vegan baking where people often replace eggs with bananas. So, it's a perfect vegan MacGyver analogy!
In other words, no matter how fine your digital filter is, you still can't beat Fourier. Any multiplication in frequency space is a convolution in time, i.e. blurring. This is why I avoid filtering/equalization as much as possible when working with music.
I second this. This is a lossless stage, and most lossless encoders use it in addition to other compression methods.
Then again, this is one of these audiophile discussions where you can expect someone to claim that wav sounds better than flac, since the former is not compressed... ;)
Which cents? US, Canadian, Euro, etc?
MySQL is just as good a name as 'My Computer'.
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'this' is.
I'm running Linux on this new fangled thing called microcomputer, so obviously it must be a microkernel.
I'd be glad to have any kind of 4-way SMP system. Whether they're all on different chips or all on the same, I'd still get 4 CPUs of processing power. Of course, inter-CPU communication makes a difference in certain applications, but people have worked with traditional SMP systems for decades, and we know how to make good use of them. Putting them on the same die won't solve the basic problems of parallelization.
Kuka puri?-) Ajattelin, että ulkomaisen kielen käyttö olisi sopiva vastatrolli, jolla voisi parhaimmilaan saada jonkin jänskän Funny+Flamebait -moderoinnin, riippumatta siitä mitä sillä kielellä kirjoittaisi.
Vitun anonyymi paskiainen. Sinänsä kyllä ihan hyvä idea, että englanninkielinen maailma voisi käpertyä omaan pikku verkkoonsa ja käyttää kunnon kaupallisia amerikkalaisia käyttiksiä ja palvoa sitä yhtä ainoaa jumalaa. Muu maailma saisi tyytyä johonkin säälittävään Linuxiin ja ajatella omilla säälittävillä aivoillaan.
Agreed. I believe geeks in general like to learn new things, just for the sake of learning. However, I do appreciate the skiing/snowboarding analogy for different OSes, since I learned downhill skiing as a kid, and snowboarding in my late teens. The two are unexpectedly quite different, and you have to forget about one when learning the other.
For digital media like DVD, porn was a huge deal because it was difficult to obtain discretely otherwise.
Moreover, Blu-Ray is much easier to remember and pronounce than something like httpd, or whatever it was.
The internal sound cards in laptops are usually terrible, and this one cannot be much better than the average. With the one in my Amilo Pro V2020, I can hear hard drive activity quite clearly, and there's a significant bass attenuation that was probably made purposefully to mitigate this problem. I use a proper USB sound card, which in addition to better sound quality gives MIDI interfaces and a very minimal mixer for extra sound sources.
Then again, I need to use a laptop as a full music workstation, so this cheap one wouldn't work anyway. For starters, a "decent mic" usually means XLR with phantom power. On the other hand I'd love to have a small and cheap laptop for many other applications, but it's hard to really justify owning so many computers, especially with a student budget where $200 worth of food and drink go a long way.