Sexual connotations aside, there's certainly a negative overtone to 'spreading' Firefox in a world where software is sold and bought like tangible products. It's like some people speculated on OSX86 that it was leaked as a marketing move; a legal free copy would be perceived as literally worthless. A copy of bits on a CD is somehow perceived the most precious of things, if you have to pay for it. If you have so much of something that you can just spread it around, it must be undergoing one hell of an inflation.
The aluminium plate is blocking half of the fan, and the remaining half is very close to the PCB, which is not very good. While destructive to airflow, such an arrangement is also much more noisy than one with a properly mounted fan.
I've got the impression that most people/companies who build cooling systems for computers, don't have the most basic clues about fluid dynamics, and this article is no exception.
Choose the 'Light' setting from your/. preferences. No tables there.
I think the regular layout is totally unbearable. If/. didn't have the Light setting, I'd probably have left the site ages ago... which might actually be a good thing;)
The article mentions the possibility of watching movies on the road. If that weren't bad enough, scientists have now proved the age-old truth that watching pr0n makes you blind, at least momentarily.
One more reason why Python is great for teaching is that you get results much faster than in some traditional languages. Of course this is great for everyday programming work, but for students the motivational aspect of rapid development is even more important. There's very little grunt work you need to do before getting into the fun stuff.
Actually, if the satellite started to fall, it would not go straight towards the center of Earth (and in any case, it would crash on the equator, not Japan). Conservation of angular momentum ensures that its motion around Earth would speed up, so it would start drifting towards the Americas, and maybe go around the world a couple of times before hitting ground.
-- TeknoHog, spoiling the fun with technical remarks since 1978.
Nitpick2: FLAC is not limited to the Ogg container, there are also.flac files. Besides, I don't think there are any hard limits as to what formats you can use inside Ogg, so it's misleading to talk about THE low-q/high-q/lossless audio format.
You can use pretty much any distro, not just Live CDs, to install Gentoo. I did my first installs from Mandrake to another partition, as I didn't have a CD burner then. I think it tells a lot about Gentoo philosophy that you can even choose your installer.
If you're afraid of the experimental, stay away from Gentoo. You might try Debian instead; though I think lately they too have gone totally rad with bleeding edge things like Linux 2.0.
What we need is a parallel programming language that makes it easy and natural to take advantage of multi-core processors.
These have been around for ages, but mainly for scientific computing. For example Fortran 90 and later versions, but there are also variants of C++ and others. Usually they take advantage of obvious parallelity in the data, for example matrix multiplication, and make the processors handle the separate bits without bothering the programmer with threads etc. It's also the kind of computation that takes place in graphics cards with their multiple pipelines.
I don't see any easy way to do the same for general programming. For example, separate threads for user interface and the actual processing is a good idea, but a very high-level one, not the kind of thing that would be done automatically by a compiler.
I hope that the existing parallel programming languages would be more widely used for the computationally intensive parts. It seems so silly that home computers have focused on pushing single processor performance for all this time, while 'real computer science' has been reaping the benefits of parallel processing for years.
Unfortunately, just as Linux is a bloated OS, KDE is a bloated, slow, disgusting GUI.
Linux is only bloated if you use KDE or a similar framework. Neither Linux or the BSD kernels are bloated in any sense of the word. In my experience, the bloat aspect is purely a distro issue, and the bare-bones-unix style I like in the BSDs (particularly NetBSD) I can get using Gentoo, with some additional benefits of Linux.
"Of course, Joe user shouldn't have to be able to cope with the command line... "
They did when DOS was around.
Good point! Back then people -- that's users, not just admins -- treated software like tools: if they wanted to use them, they learned how to use them. They didn't complain about the difficulty of the command line, even though it was worse than today's unix equivalents.
Nowadays it seems people refuse to learn things. They expect computers to read their minds. It's like each user interface feature that is 1 step easier to use, makes people 2 steps dumber. *sigh*
Gold is great for connectors, to protect them from corrosion. But for the cables themselves, silver is actually a much better conductor. (IIRC, gold is worse than copper, which is used in almost all cables).
And because of the skin effect, it helps a lot even to have copper cables coated with silver.
In this world of unmolested monopolies, cartels, and rampant corporate mergers, have we so lost sight of the benefits of competition
This is a completely different situation, because the different technologies are far from compatible. They don't really compete with each other as they are intended for different things, and they are more fundamentally different technologies.
Conversely, there are no technical reasons why, for example, Microsoft couldn't make their web browser and word processor honour standards. They use this vendor lock-in to stifle competition. It's a good thing to have other word processors and browsers that accomplish the same tasks, because it keeps competitors on their toes. But WiMax doesn't threaten the position of 802.11g.
A DX2 maybe. Back in the day I had a 486-33 laptop and it could play MP3s only in mono and downsampled to 22.5 kHz:) I'm sure the software has improved though.
A fanless 800Mhz C3-Nehemiah can do mpeg2 & 4 comfortably, and with the mpeg2 and 4 hardware acceleration features of the Via CN400 northbridges' built in graphic chip, it can do it with pleanty of spare juice to do background work like streaming digital terrestial video streams from the TV Tuner cards to the hard disk, or playing mame!
Agreed, and that's why I think it's utterly DUMB to consider an Athlon/Pentium4/Celeron for this kind of a machine. I think Pentium M is the best choice, and if you can afford a specialized machine like in the article, you should be able to afford Pentium M.
My own media PC is actually a VIA Nehemiah 1 GHz, which has plenty of juice for that use. I haven't bothered getting the mpeg2 acceleration to work, as MPlayer is fast enough without it.
On the other hand, I use a 1.6 GHz Pentium M laptop as a music workstation. For that kind of work, the extra juice is actually useful. In some benchmarks I've found it to be five times as fast as the VIA, and the power consumption is pretty much the same (something like 20 watts).
Besides, it's hardly the middle of nowhere, as it has become famous for its traditional throat singing. One of the people who made it famous was Richard Feynman; I first learned of Tuva as I was searching for stuff on Feynman. It shouldn't be news to any fan of Feynman that he was into obscure music.
If you're looking for less well known parts of the world, you might have a look at the other 'autonomous republics' within Russia, such as Komi or Mari.
Can you name an emulator that does not implement a programming interface (software or hardware)?
So far the main argument for WINE not being an emulator is that it doesn't emulate hardware. I guess if the definition of emulation means imitating hardware with software, then that is true. But I don't understand why we have to draw the line to software/hardware. It would be clearer to speak of hardware emulation specifically, if needed.
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Sexual connotations aside, there's certainly a negative overtone to 'spreading' Firefox in a world where software is sold and bought like tangible products. It's like some people speculated on OSX86 that it was leaked as a marketing move; a legal free copy would be perceived as literally worthless. A copy of bits on a CD is somehow perceived the most precious of things, if you have to pay for it. If you have so much of something that you can just spread it around, it must be undergoing one hell of an inflation.
I've got the impression that most people/companies who build cooling systems for computers, don't have the most basic clues about fluid dynamics, and this article is no exception.
I think the regular layout is totally unbearable. If /. didn't have the Light setting, I'd probably have left the site ages ago... which might actually be a good thing ;)
The article mentions the possibility of watching movies on the road. If that weren't bad enough, scientists have now proved the age-old truth that watching pr0n makes you blind, at least momentarily.
I think you should try another operating system... I've found that Linux is pretty compatible with aluminum cases ;)
I once had a case made of Plutonium-186, but the parallel universe threesome guys kept bluescreening it all the time.
They're especially "misleading" (funny in that pathetic kind of way) when you haven't used Windows in a long time :)
What kind of cool things for example? What kind of extended functionality? You're not answering the question at all, are you?
Who modded this +Interesting?
One more reason why Python is great for teaching is that you get results much faster than in some traditional languages. Of course this is great for everyday programming work, but for students the motivational aspect of rapid development is even more important. There's very little grunt work you need to do before getting into the fun stuff.
-- TeknoHog, spoiling the fun with technical remarks since 1978.
Nitpick2: FLAC is not limited to the Ogg container, there are also .flac files. Besides, I don't think there are any hard limits as to what formats you can use inside Ogg, so it's misleading to talk about THE low-q/high-q/lossless audio format.
As opposed to http and ftp, which somehow magically work without a client ;)
Seriously though, something like BT plugin in Firefox would probably help a lot.
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You can use pretty much any distro, not just Live CDs, to install Gentoo. I did my first installs from Mandrake to another partition, as I didn't have a CD burner then. I think it tells a lot about Gentoo philosophy that you can even choose your installer.
If you're afraid of the experimental, stay away from Gentoo. You might try Debian instead; though I think lately they too have gone totally rad with bleeding edge things like Linux 2.0.
These have been around for ages, but mainly for scientific computing. For example Fortran 90 and later versions, but there are also variants of C++ and others. Usually they take advantage of obvious parallelity in the data, for example matrix multiplication, and make the processors handle the separate bits without bothering the programmer with threads etc. It's also the kind of computation that takes place in graphics cards with their multiple pipelines.
I don't see any easy way to do the same for general programming. For example, separate threads for user interface and the actual processing is a good idea, but a very high-level one, not the kind of thing that would be done automatically by a compiler.
I hope that the existing parallel programming languages would be more widely used for the computationally intensive parts. It seems so silly that home computers have focused on pushing single processor performance for all this time, while 'real computer science' has been reaping the benefits of parallel processing for years.
Linux is only bloated if you use KDE or a similar framework. Neither Linux or the BSD kernels are bloated in any sense of the word. In my experience, the bloat aspect is purely a distro issue, and the bare-bones-unix style I like in the BSDs (particularly NetBSD) I can get using Gentoo, with some additional benefits of Linux.
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They did when DOS was around.
Good point! Back then people -- that's users, not just admins -- treated software like tools: if they wanted to use them, they learned how to use them. They didn't complain about the difficulty of the command line, even though it was worse than today's unix equivalents.
Nowadays it seems people refuse to learn things. They expect computers to read their minds. It's like each user interface feature that is 1 step easier to use, makes people 2 steps dumber. *sigh*
And because of the skin effect, it helps a lot even to have copper cables coated with silver.
This is a completely different situation, because the different technologies are far from compatible. They don't really compete with each other as they are intended for different things, and they are more fundamentally different technologies.
Conversely, there are no technical reasons why, for example, Microsoft couldn't make their web browser and word processor honour standards. They use this vendor lock-in to stifle competition. It's a good thing to have other word processors and browsers that accomplish the same tasks, because it keeps competitors on their toes. But WiMax doesn't threaten the position of 802.11g.
A DX2 maybe. Back in the day I had a 486-33 laptop and it could play MP3s only in mono and downsampled to 22.5 kHz :) I'm sure the software has improved though.
A fanless 800Mhz C3-Nehemiah can do mpeg2 & 4 comfortably, and with the mpeg2 and 4 hardware acceleration features of the Via CN400 northbridges' built in graphic chip, it can do it with pleanty of spare juice to do background work like streaming digital terrestial video streams from the TV Tuner cards to the hard disk, or playing mame!
Agreed, and that's why I think it's utterly DUMB to consider an Athlon/Pentium4/Celeron for this kind of a machine. I think Pentium M is the best choice, and if you can afford a specialized machine like in the article, you should be able to afford Pentium M.
My own media PC is actually a VIA Nehemiah 1 GHz, which has plenty of juice for that use. I haven't bothered getting the mpeg2 acceleration to work, as MPlayer is fast enough without it.
On the other hand, I use a 1.6 GHz Pentium M laptop as a music workstation. For that kind of work, the extra juice is actually useful. In some benchmarks I've found it to be five times as fast as the VIA, and the power consumption is pretty much the same (something like 20 watts).
Besides, it's hardly the middle of nowhere, as it has become famous for its traditional throat singing. One of the people who made it famous was Richard Feynman; I first learned of Tuva as I was searching for stuff on Feynman. It shouldn't be news to any fan of Feynman that he was into obscure music.
If you're looking for less well known parts of the world, you might have a look at the other 'autonomous republics' within Russia, such as Komi or Mari.
So far the main argument for WINE not being an emulator is that it doesn't emulate hardware. I guess if the definition of emulation means imitating hardware with software, then that is true. But I don't understand why we have to draw the line to software/hardware. It would be clearer to speak of hardware emulation specifically, if needed.
Muggles.