5'6"1/2 is plenty readable to me. That's 1689mm. Both are 4 digits long. I don't see a clear advantage of using mm.
There are advantages if you are ever doing any calculations on that number, say divide it by three for example. Also, since you were fine in rounding the distance to half an inch (~12.5 mm), why would you not round the metric number to whole centimeters (10 mm)? That would make it a nice 169 cm. Three digits, and all in the same unit!
Well, if you insist on calling both the kernel and the distributions for "Linux" you are going to have to be perfectly clear on what you are talking about if you want to avoid misunderstandings.
I think you misunderstand the controversy about GNU/Linux. Noone is saying that the kernel in question should be called GNU/Linux. Stallman, however, insists that distributions should be called GNU/Linux when appropriate, which I think the GP was referring to.
The increased address space is not the important part of the ARMv8 64-bit architecture in this case. Instead it has twice the number of general purpose registers (31) with twice the size (64 bit) than that of the previous ARMv7 architecture. It also has 32 x 128 bit vector registers, which again is doubled. This allows for more data being processed at the same time, and also saves a bit on memory accesses, which are horribly slow. There are also other improvements such as built in AES encrypting and SHA hashing instructions.
They don't last more than a few months for me. I'm on my fifth pair. And they charge me 25 fucking pounds for each replacement. And they sound terrible.
Just out of curiosity, why do you keep buying them?
You are of course correct. They use the "device attached" pin of the USB port with a specific resistor to switch the USB data lines into two analog audio outs. While this is a cool hack, it still suffers from a few limitations that the apple dock connector doesn't have. It can't do analog in at the same time (think microphone input for a car handsfree), or video, or simultaneous USB data transfer, to name a few things. Also, this is not part of the USB standard, which means the cable only works with certain phone models, and can actually make other devices misbehave. Try connecting a Galaxy Nexus to that cable.:-)
This is where the Magic Mouse shines in my opinion. But you have to use Better Touch Tool or other software to really make it useful, because OS X's built-in gestures are just not enough. I use two and three finger swipes and "tip-taps" to open/close tabs, navigate back/forward, turn up/down volume etc in addition to just scrolling. Best mouse I've ever had!
I saw this as a feature!:-) I used to create sinus-tables for use by my assembler code by using Amiga-Basic.
Just do a for-loop, use the built-in sin(), and poke the result into a (hopefully) free memory-location. Then switch to the assembler/monitor and dump the memory back to either assembly notation or raw data to be written to disk. Quick and easy.:-)
(2) developing tools for cheating in-game, ala aimbots that're easily adapted to new games,
Well, what did I as a PS3 gamer do to deserve this? This is precisely the reason why hackers are despised right now by most PS3 owners. I couldn't care less about them making emulators, games, knockoffs or even copies of games, installing linux, xbmc or using the console for other awesome stuff, but what I do care about is that my gaming experience is being affected by what they do. I am not Sony, nor am I fan of Sony. I choose the PS3 because I like to play games without hassle once in a while, and in my experience, Microsoft is by far the more evil company.
So, about retaliation: (1) Fight the DMCA. This is the real problem, isn't it? (2) Stop buying Sony products. (3) Stop whining. You (american hackers) knew full well that this was illegal in your country and didn't give a shit about getting caught.
I lost all my old C64 floppys when my parents moved to a new house. Felt a bit sad that every demo I ever made was gone.
Luckily I found them again when googling my own name! Turned out that someone I have never met had the time and devotion to find them, transfer them to a PC, read every scroll text and attribute every part to the correct person. They even found my real name, and my old address and phone number by dumping the memory at $3000.:-)
An important note here is that I am not a well known scener, nor was my group, and the demos were not very technically advanced or pretty. But if something ends up on the internet it seems like it will never go away.
There will come a time when you get sick of having to worry about choosing between DDR2 or DDR3, different memory speeds and clock timings, CPU sockets, Graphic Cards, driver versions, registry tweaks and stuff like that. I know I was.
I built my own PC's for at least 12 years before I lost interest in harware configuration. I first switched to using different prebuilt PC brands like Dell and IBM (for work) to at least get a computer that was reasonably quiet. Yes I did try out watercooling, but while being more quiet, it was not exactly maintenance free. The I switched to a MacPro and OS X as my primary workstation at work. Mostly because Visual Studio link times were horrible and also because I found out that OS X is a great developer platform with it's UNIX internals. I will never go back. I happily leave the hardware tuning to Apple so that I can spend my time developing instead.
BTW, my work desktop has 8 cores and can have at least 32 GB of RAM. It's very fast, and what Apple does well is that they don't cheap out when it comes to IO performance, which is what matters most when developing. It was probably really expensive, but it doesn't matter that much when it's company paid. At home i use a 27" iMac with a quad core i7. Again, quite expensive, but worth every penny specifically because I don't have to worry about hardware configuration.
And just to point out - I don't consider myself a fanboy. I don't care at all about Steve Jobs, or Apple as a company. I just found out that they made great performing, quiet and nice looking computers with a very nice OS that lets me focus on what I do for a living.
Run IE9 against other aspects of HTML5 and the browser would be decidedly behind its competitors. IE9 lacks support for Web Workers, drag-and-drop features, SVG animations and the File API, all of which are vital components for building useful web applications, and all of which enjoy considerable support in other browsers.
The funny thing about the umlauts is that danish doesn't even have them. They use å, æ and ø, while we swedes however use å, ä and ö for (almost) the same sounds. Metal band names with umlauts, like motörhead and mötley crüe really messes with our heads, and it took me a good 15 years before I found out that I had been pronouncing them wrong all the time...
Nice try trolling, but it's actually the other way around. Apple has always shipped their own version of java. They just stop doing that now, and let Oracle do the work instead, just like on Windows or Linux.
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If they had backdoors they would just reveal these to the FBI and be done with it. After all this is what the FBI was asking for.
Except that UK and the rest of Europe uses 50 Hz, you may be right.
I guess they could use a metric fuckton of gas to avoid that problem for light breezes.
Or maybe some kind of shielding from the wind and rain, like a hood.
Devoted kids WILL sooner or later cure cancer. With redstone. In minecraft.
5'6"1/2 is plenty readable to me. That's 1689mm. Both are 4 digits long. I don't see a clear advantage of using mm.
There are advantages if you are ever doing any calculations on that number, say divide it by three for example.
Also, since you were fine in rounding the distance to half an inch (~12.5 mm), why would you not round the metric number to whole centimeters (10 mm)? That would make it a nice 169 cm. Three digits, and all in the same unit!
Well, if you insist on calling both the kernel and the distributions for "Linux" you are going to have to be perfectly clear on what you are talking about if you want to avoid misunderstandings.
I think you misunderstand the controversy about GNU/Linux. Noone is saying that the kernel in question should be called GNU/Linux. Stallman, however, insists that distributions should be called GNU/Linux when appropriate, which I think the GP was referring to.
Linus Torvalds is much more productive than you. He uses Linux. You should definitely switch.
To be fair, Linus Torvalds uses a MacBook Air. Though he probably has linux on it.
The increased address space is not the important part of the ARMv8 64-bit architecture in this case.
Instead it has twice the number of general purpose registers (31) with twice the size (64 bit) than that of the previous ARMv7 architecture. It also has 32 x 128 bit vector registers, which again is doubled. This allows for more data being processed at the same time, and also saves a bit on memory accesses, which are horribly slow. There are also other improvements such as built in AES encrypting and SHA hashing instructions.
They don't last more than a few months for me. I'm on my fifth pair. And they charge me 25 fucking pounds for each replacement. And they sound terrible.
Just out of curiosity, why do you keep buying them?
You are of course correct. They use the "device attached" pin of the USB port with a specific resistor to switch the USB data lines into two analog audio outs. :-)
While this is a cool hack, it still suffers from a few limitations that the apple dock connector doesn't have. It can't do analog in at the same time (think microphone input for a car handsfree), or video, or simultaneous USB data transfer, to name a few things.
Also, this is not part of the USB standard, which means the cable only works with certain phone models, and can actually make other devices misbehave. Try connecting a Galaxy Nexus to that cable.
Yes, but you can't do analog audio over micro USB. It is not the same thing. Making a sound-dock for USB is much more complex and expensive.
That would be Mountain Lion of course...
You can resize by dragging the top edge in OS X Snow Lion. I'm not sure if it's new for this version though.
the greatest work station epiphany i recently had involved turning my 9:16 monitor 90 degrees
So that it became an ordinary 16:9 screen?
This is where the Magic Mouse shines in my opinion.
But you have to use Better Touch Tool or other software to really make it useful, because OS X's built-in gestures are just not enough.
I use two and three finger swipes and "tip-taps" to open/close tabs, navigate back/forward, turn up/down volume etc in addition to just scrolling. Best mouse I've ever had!
I saw this as a feature! :-)
I used to create sinus-tables for use by my assembler code by using Amiga-Basic.
Just do a for-loop, use the built-in sin(), and poke the result into a (hopefully) free memory-location. Then switch to the assembler/monitor and dump the memory back to either assembly notation or raw data to be written to disk. Quick and easy. :-)
(2) developing tools for cheating in-game, ala aimbots that're easily adapted to new games,
Well, what did I as a PS3 gamer do to deserve this? This is precisely the reason why hackers are despised right now by most PS3 owners.
I couldn't care less about them making emulators, games, knockoffs or even copies of games, installing linux, xbmc or using the console for other awesome stuff, but what I do care about is that my gaming experience is being affected by what they do. I am not Sony, nor am I fan of Sony. I choose the PS3 because I like to play games without hassle once in a while, and in my experience, Microsoft is by far the more evil company.
So, about retaliation:
(1) Fight the DMCA. This is the real problem, isn't it?
(2) Stop buying Sony products.
(3) Stop whining. You (american hackers) knew full well that this was illegal in your country and didn't give a shit about getting caught.
I lost all my old C64 floppys when my parents moved to a new house. Felt a bit sad that every demo I ever made was gone.
Luckily I found them again when googling my own name! Turned out that someone I have never met had the time and devotion to find them, transfer them to a PC, read every scroll text and attribute every part to the correct person. They even found my real name, and my old address and phone number by dumping the memory at $3000. :-)
An important note here is that I am not a well known scener, nor was my group, and the demos were not very technically advanced or pretty. But if something ends up on the internet it seems like it will never go away.
That, and being able to figure out what people actually want in the first place.
Yes, this is a very important part, which reminds me of this old gem
There will come a time when you get sick of having to worry about choosing between DDR2 or DDR3, different memory speeds and clock timings, CPU sockets, Graphic Cards, driver versions, registry tweaks and stuff like that. I know I was.
I built my own PC's for at least 12 years before I lost interest in harware configuration. I first switched to using different prebuilt PC brands like Dell and IBM (for work) to at least get a computer that was reasonably quiet. Yes I did try out watercooling, but while being more quiet, it was not exactly maintenance free.
The I switched to a MacPro and OS X as my primary workstation at work. Mostly because Visual Studio link times were horrible and also because I found out that OS X is a great developer platform with it's UNIX internals. I will never go back. I happily leave the hardware tuning to Apple so that I can spend my time developing instead.
BTW, my work desktop has 8 cores and can have at least 32 GB of RAM. It's very fast, and what Apple does well is that they don't cheap out when it comes to IO performance, which is what matters most when developing. It was probably really expensive, but it doesn't matter that much when it's company paid.
At home i use a 27" iMac with a quad core i7. Again, quite expensive, but worth every penny specifically because I don't have to worry about hardware configuration.
And just to point out - I don't consider myself a fanboy. I don't care at all about Steve Jobs, or Apple as a company. I just found out that they made great performing, quiet and nice looking computers with a very nice OS that lets me focus on what I do for a living.
...according to the test developers.
According to wired:
Run IE9 against other aspects of HTML5 and the browser would be decidedly behind its competitors. IE9 lacks support for Web Workers, drag-and-drop features, SVG animations and the File API, all of which are vital components for building useful web applications, and all of which enjoy considerable support in other browsers.
The funny thing about the umlauts is that danish doesn't even have them. They use å, æ and ø, while we swedes however use å, ä and ö for (almost) the same sounds. Metal band names with umlauts, like motörhead and mötley crüe really messes with our heads, and it took me a good 15 years before I found out that I had been pronouncing them wrong all the time...
Now all we need is for someone to start a "Virtual Machine Foundation", and an "Operating System Foundation".
Nice try trolling, but it's actually the other way around. Apple has always shipped their own version of java. They just stop doing that now, and let Oracle do the work instead, just like on Windows or Linux.