Well, if we get all technical, laser is the name of a technology or idea: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Throwing around ideas is usually quite fun IMHO:)
I don't think open source works in any artform in the way it does in software. In a program that does one thing, there's usually an objective idea on how it could be improved, but art is more subjective. If you let many people work on the same piece of art, it doesn't necessarily get any better -- though the same applies for software in some cases. On the other hand, musicians in a band can often produce a good collective vision, better than that of a single composer.
I actually started composing music with trackers in 1992, and did some collaborations and remixes, but mostly good tracker pieces come from single authors. Ideas and samples, on the other hand, can flow freely and influence others. It happens in any kind of music, even if you don't have the 'source'.
Now that I work more with MIDI equipment and other instruments, it's a lot harder to share the source. Most of the notation is only in my head anyway. Plus, it isn't practical to put all those gigs of unorganized material available online. But of course, if anyone's interested in tinkering with some of my music, I'll be happy to provide the source material.
I don't think sound quality is a concern with player software. If the software plays the files at all, it's very unlikely for it to make mistakes with the data. On the other hand if the player is buggy, the errors are very noticeable and will result in not playing the file at all.
If there are subtle quality issues, it's usually something with the hardware and/or the encoding (like low bitrate MP3s).
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As for the EQ, I don't see a reason why anyone should use it when listening to music, except to correct for some really bad hardware, in which case you have bigger problems than the quality of EQ.
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Yes! I've written some details about it on my E2 homepage (scroll down a little).
I had the 'forehead sense' quite strong as a younger kid, and it's diminished since. These days I usually get the same feeling during meditation, or intensely focused work (aka 'deep hack mode':)
The sheer amount of organic material people leave in toilets is not chemically destroyable. Toilet brushes won't become a thing of the past.
More precisely, chemical means cannot destroy matter, they can only convert it between different forms. I've wondered this about self-cleaning windows too, as they use the same effect. I guess it helps that the coating makes the surface less sticky.
Not that much easier, because the Moon's rotational speed is much less than that of Earth. Remember that one side of the Moon is always facing the Earth, making its period of rotation about itself the same as its orbital period, about 30 days.
Linear velocity of Earth surface at the equator: 6370 km * 2 * pi / 86400 s = 0.46 km/s
Same for Moon: 1737 km * 2 * pi / (30 * 86400s) = 0.0042 km/s or about 1/100 of that of Earth.
These are just approximate figures but hopefully they illustrate the point. And sorry about the dumb European units;)
On the other hand, the escape velocity on the Moon is less than on Earth (2.4 km/s vs. 11.2 km/s), so it helps a little. The ratios are then
Moreover, it's the escape energy that affects fuel expenditure etc. and it is proportional to velocity squared. Of course, the total escape energy is much less on the Moon, so it's easier to take off even if you ignore the effects of rotation.
I second this. In general, I find the mouse replacements in laptops awful, but the Thinkpad-style 'nipple' is pretty good. Even better is the small trackball you find in some old laptops, but it's probably too big and expensive for current models.
IMHO, touchpads are the worst of the lot, if only for their position below the palms where they get constantly touched. They are also impossible to use for anything accurate, in my experience. This is probably due in part to the size of fingertips, which are not quite pointlike. A nipple mouse has none of these problems.
In fact I've considered getting one of the IBM Space Saver keyboards for my desktop, the kind with a nipple mouse and no numeric keypad.
I use the wheel as a middle button all the time. However, it's rather inconvenient because it feels so different from the other buttons, and it's easy to scroll it by mistake at the same time. This problem is exaggerated with Firefox, when you use Shift+Middleclick to open a tab in the background, since Shift+Scroll will scroll the page history:-/ I should just get an ordinary 3-button mouse, but I'm too cheap to do that as the current mouse works fine otherwise:)
Something like this was done in Finland relating to the DMCA-like amendments that went into the copyright law at the start of this year. The Minister of Culture, who is a the main figurehead for the new law, was given an MP3 player and an encrypted music CD for Christmas. She was told to get busy ripping the CD before while it was still legal.
If you're still in good terms with Linux, you might want to try Software suspend 2, which is an ACPI-independent way of hibernating to the hard drive. It's working great for me, as I can't get ACPI suspend to work either.
Yes they do. The little bits of R, G and B are there as constituents of the colors you see.
The difference is that the arrangement of subpixels within a pixel is not as well defined in CRTs as in LCDs. An LCD has one of each color in a pixel, usually in the RGB layout from left to right, though not always. In CRTs there are usually more than one piece of each color component per pixel, and there's no consensus as to their arrangement across different makes and models of monitor. Therefore something like Cleartype (and whatever they call it in X11/Xft) is much harder to do, and has fewer benefits.
Also, consider your desired naming--do you *want* to be company.com/you or school.edu/~you forever? (And, more importantly *can* you? What happens if you quit, get fired, graduate, or drop out?) In any case, if you want a real, permanent TLD, you'll probably need to run your own box at home or pay for a host.
I'm a member of IKI, a Finnish society of Internet users that provides redirection addressess for web and mail. My website has been running in a number of different places over the years, but the same http://iki.fi/user/ address (including any file/directory path within) works every time, as long as I've updated the redirect target. Same goes for mail.
It's a society for Finnish users only, so I wonder if there's anything similar for the rest of the world. As for the cost, I paid a one-time fee of 25 EUR upon joining, and there are no annual fees.
The only question I have about it (and the reason I've never tried it) is what happens when you actually shut down or reboot the computer - does Linux know that there's no image for it to "resume" from?
Yes, it does. If you look at Suspend2's details, you'll find that it's very well thought of, just like the rest of Linux.
IMHO, you should try things like this just for the heck of it. It's the hacker/tinkerer spirit. If you use journaled filesystems, there's very little risk of data loss in case of crashes.
This would translate to 73 if IQ rised linearly with age, but it probably doesn't.
Unfortunately, this is how IQ is defined. If you have the brain capacity of an average 15-year old at the age of 10, then by definition you have an IQ of 150.
My big question though is whether it will bring my KDE desktop up faster than a plain vanilla boot? Does software suspend get round all that time-consuming service startup (and all the rest of the stuff that goes on while those messages are scrolling up the console)?
Yes. When you boot again, only the kernel is booted, which takes about two seconds or so. Then instead of init (all those startup services), it picks up the RAM image from the disk (takes a few seconds on my 512MB machine).
S5 (aka. hibernate) writes out RAM to disk, and reads from disk upon restart. I'm not a particular fan of this method, as it would take quite a while to resume on a system with a large ammount of RAM. Still, it has the potential to be even lower power provided you're going to be away long enough.
I use Linux's software suspend (which I've already mentioned too many times in this discussion:) It only takes a few seconds to restore 512MB of RAM. One reason it achieves this is that RAM contents are compressed with LZF when written on the disk, to avoid the I/O bottleneck.
I don't understand why there should be hardware standby and sleep functions. The hardware should be provided with a means of reading and writing its entire state. When you power down, the contents of RAM and all the hardware state should get written to the hard drive. When you power up normally, instead of going through a lengthy boot process, it should read and restore the state the contents of RAM and the hardware state, and pick up where it left off.
Linux's software suspend does just this, see my other post here. Well, in fact you have to boot the kernel normally (to initialize hardware, etc.) but instead of a lengthy init, you get the restored state.
Linux has software suspend in the kernel. It's the same as hibernation in Windows. Memory contents are saved to swap, and when you boot the same kernel again, it picks up where it left off. It's independent of APM/ACPI and you can use it on any Linux machine.
While the vanilla version works basically, Suspend2 is a more complete implementation. I use it on my laptop regularly.
What if you own an album that is unplayable(scratched) or hard to convert(vinyl), then download it because you are unwilling to be extorted by paying several times for your content.
Wasn't this the whole point of CD technology? To re-sell music that people already had in vinyl format?
What is it with Linux guys and blameing broken software on users not willing to fix it?
Linux, and most of Linux software, is made by its users.
If a commercial piece of software breaks, I think it's fair to complain to the maker. After all you paid for it, and you weren't given the means to fix it. Conversely, if a Linux application written by a volunteer breaks, you can try and fix it, and the least you can do is to report the bug, which helps others fix it.
There's also commercial software for Linux and volunteer-written software for closed source operating systems. This question is not specifically about Linux.
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Well, if we get all technical, laser is the name of a technology or idea: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Throwing around ideas is usually quite fun IMHO :)
I actually started composing music with trackers in 1992, and did some collaborations and remixes, but mostly good tracker pieces come from single authors. Ideas and samples, on the other hand, can flow freely and influence others. It happens in any kind of music, even if you don't have the 'source'.
Now that I work more with MIDI equipment and other instruments, it's a lot harder to share the source. Most of the notation is only in my head anyway. Plus, it isn't practical to put all those gigs of unorganized material available online. But of course, if anyone's interested in tinkering with some of my music, I'll be happy to provide the source material.
[flamewar alert] As for the EQ, I don't see a reason why anyone should use it when listening to music, except to correct for some really bad hardware, in which case you have bigger problems than the quality of EQ. [/flamewar alert]
I had the 'forehead sense' quite strong as a younger kid, and it's diminished since. These days I usually get the same feeling during meditation, or intensely focused work (aka 'deep hack mode' :)
More precisely, chemical means cannot destroy matter, they can only convert it between different forms. I've wondered this about self-cleaning windows too, as they use the same effect. I guess it helps that the coating makes the surface less sticky.
These are just approximate figures but hopefully they illustrate the point. And sorry about the dumb European units ;)
On the other hand, the escape velocity on the Moon is less than on Earth (2.4 km/s vs. 11.2 km/s), so it helps a little. The ratios are then
Moreover, it's the escape energy that affects fuel expenditure etc. and it is proportional to velocity squared. Of course, the total escape energy is much less on the Moon, so it's easier to take off even if you ignore the effects of rotation.IMHO, touchpads are the worst of the lot, if only for their position below the palms where they get constantly touched. They are also impossible to use for anything accurate, in my experience. This is probably due in part to the size of fingertips, which are not quite pointlike. A nipple mouse has none of these problems.
In fact I've considered getting one of the IBM Space Saver keyboards for my desktop, the kind with a nipple mouse and no numeric keypad.
I use the wheel as a middle button all the time. However, it's rather inconvenient because it feels so different from the other buttons, and it's easy to scroll it by mistake at the same time. This problem is exaggerated with Firefox, when you use Shift+Middleclick to open a tab in the background, since Shift+Scroll will scroll the page history :-/ I should just get an ordinary 3-button mouse, but I'm too cheap to do that as the current mouse works fine otherwise :)
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The 8MB mark is still pretty accurate... this is for the console version with a couple of text files open:
If you're still in good terms with Linux, you might want to try Software suspend 2, which is an ACPI-independent way of hibernating to the hard drive. It's working great for me, as I can't get ACPI suspend to work either.
For once, this exclamation is appropriate, if you pardon the misspelling of 'smog'.
I didn't even RTFA, but it seems from the summary that the sound itself doesn't kill the cancer cells -- it helps the drug penetrate into the tissue.
Yes they do. The little bits of R, G and B are there as constituents of the colors you see.
The difference is that the arrangement of subpixels within a pixel is not as well defined in CRTs as in LCDs. An LCD has one of each color in a pixel, usually in the RGB layout from left to right, though not always. In CRTs there are usually more than one piece of each color component per pixel, and there's no consensus as to their arrangement across different makes and models of monitor. Therefore something like Cleartype (and whatever they call it in X11/Xft) is much harder to do, and has fewer benefits.
I'm a member of IKI, a Finnish society of Internet users that provides redirection addressess for web and mail. My website has been running in a number of different places over the years, but the same http://iki.fi/user/ address (including any file/directory path within) works every time, as long as I've updated the redirect target. Same goes for mail.
It's a society for Finnish users only, so I wonder if there's anything similar for the rest of the world. As for the cost, I paid a one-time fee of 25 EUR upon joining, and there are no annual fees.
Yes, it does. If you look at Suspend2's details, you'll find that it's very well thought of, just like the rest of Linux.
IMHO, you should try things like this just for the heck of it. It's the hacker/tinkerer spirit. If you use journaled filesystems, there's very little risk of data loss in case of crashes.
Unfortunately, this is how IQ is defined. If you have the brain capacity of an average 15-year old at the age of 10, then by definition you have an IQ of 150.
Yes. When you boot again, only the kernel is booted, which takes about two seconds or so. Then instead of init (all those startup services), it picks up the RAM image from the disk (takes a few seconds on my 512MB machine).
I use Linux's software suspend (which I've already mentioned too many times in this discussion :) It only takes a few seconds to restore 512MB of RAM. One reason it achieves this is that RAM contents are compressed with LZF when written on the disk, to avoid the I/O bottleneck.
Linux's software suspend does just this, see my other post here. Well, in fact you have to boot the kernel normally (to initialize hardware, etc.) but instead of a lengthy init, you get the restored state.
While the vanilla version works basically, Suspend2 is a more complete implementation. I use it on my laptop regularly.
Actually, the XP in "Windows XP" is an emoticon.
Wasn't this the whole point of CD technology? To re-sell music that people already had in vinyl format?
Linux, and most of Linux software, is made by its users.
If a commercial piece of software breaks, I think it's fair to complain to the maker. After all you paid for it, and you weren't given the means to fix it. Conversely, if a Linux application written by a volunteer breaks, you can try and fix it, and the least you can do is to report the bug, which helps others fix it.
There's also commercial software for Linux and volunteer-written software for closed source operating systems. This question is not specifically about Linux.
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