Actually, base 10 is a funny business and is probably only really popular because we have 10 digits on our hands. Even base 12 makes more sense as it is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12 while 10 is only divisbible by 1, 2, 5, and 10. 60 has 12 whole factors and, since we like to divide time up so much, it makes a lot of sense to use the base-60 time system. even if 60 weren't a factor of 360 (useful for making those lovely circular analogue clocks and watches) it still makes a lot of sense as a base system for time.
Why is the fact that Windows is unable to defend itself against any serious scrutiny an argument for not scrutinizing it? If a member of the scientific community tried to get his or her hypothesis accepted on the grounds of its inability to defend itself against scrutinty, they would (rightly) be laughed out of credibility. Shouldn't we hold a company who clambers after more and more power to a corresponding ammount of responsibility?
According to nVidia's linux support people:
"The 2313 drivers do not support GeForce4, though new drivers with GeForce 4 support should be available roughly around the same time GeForce4's make it to the stores."
You should probably not go with fiber. The only advantage fiber really gives you over copper is range. You can get gigabit copper just as easily and much more cheaply than gigabit fiber, you just can't run it reliably more than maybe 150 meters. Besides, if you run fiber you will have to be careful not to bend it too far; fiber works like reflections in a lake, if you're on the edge of the lake you can see the reflection, but you cannot if you are directly above it. Light bounces off the edges of the straight fiber, but if you bend it the signal will be "looking down at the lake" and it won't bounce off. You probably won't be need to bend fiber enought to make a real difference, but if you don't want to worry about loosing your signal due to a few kinks, just go with copper.
The only thing you need to worry about with running the copper all in one big hunk with the phone line is the possiblity of crosstalk. This is due to the magnetic field generated by one wire inducing current in another wire, creating a false signal. This really isn't a big problem unless you have a load o'wires(r) slapped together, but try to locate your central connection endpoint (hub/switch and router, whatever you have) somewhere in the middle of your home. That way you can spiderweb your copper in the directions of the different rooms and never have more than 4 or so lines bundled together.
Screw ease of portability, since it is basically an nForce based PC, what is preventing people from writing an execution environment/mini os for plain old PC's that allow XBox games to be executed _natively_?
I can't see how optimizing certain programs is wrong as long as that is what is going on. When you start deoptimizing everything else, you start moving into serious shithead territory.
I don't see what record labels want to accomplish. Just because you can't rip the CD doesn't mean you can't plug your cd player's line-out to your computer's line-in, record, and encode. I even think l.a.m.e. can encode to mp3 strait from the line-in. The only thing that copy protection seems to do well is lower the buyer base of a CD. I don't own a CD player other than on my computer, and if it is going to come down to downloading an mp3 of a song or buying a cd player, I'll just download the mp3. Screw 'em.
they might have just pattened these so they could
sue the arse off of anyone who creates one. After all, every successfull sale of such a device would be a walking advertisement against cellular telephones. If a lot of people _think_ there is a serious danger in using cell phones, it will be just as bad for business as if there really is.
colored light is light that only represents certain parts of the visible spectrum, adding more colors of light will get you closer the seeing the whole spectrum (white).
On the other hand, colored pigments absorb certain wavelengths of light -- red (actually magenta) absorbs green light, blue (actually cyan) absorbs red light, and yellow (the only correct one) absorbs blue light. This is why adding more colors of pigment gets you closer to black (more wavelengths of light are absorbed and never reach your eye)
you can acheive the primary colors of light with pigments by mixing any two primary pigments:
cyan and yellow take away red and blue and you're left with green (this is how you get the "yellow and blue makes green seal"). magenta and yellow take away green and blue and you're left with red, magenta and cyan take away green and red and you're left with blue.
tadah
I contacted s-vision (the people who make sorensen) about what would be required for a port of the codec (ie, to xanim, xmovie, etc) and this is what they sent back: [quote] Thank you for your question about Sorenson Video on unsupported OS platforms. Sorenson Vision has chosen to team up with Apple and their QuickTime product. Because of this, Sorenson Video is only available on supported QuickTime OS platforms. QuickTime is available for Mac OS , Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4. According to Apple, the next platform to be supported will be Mac OS X (including Mac OS X Server), which is Mach/BSD-based. If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows, please contact your platform vendor and let them know that you would like them to license QuickTime from Apple. Once QuickTime is available on a platform, Sorenson Video will be there as well. Maybe you could talk Netscape into working with QuickTime on a simple player plugin? Alvin K. Ogles [unqote] as you can see, they aren't too enthusiastic about releasing sorensen to anyone unless they see pretty substantial support from apple first... perhaps a petition to RedHat or VALinux to license quicktime from Apple would yield results and prove that these companies are really not just here to make lots of money:)
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Actually, base 10 is a funny business and is probably only really popular because we have 10 digits on our hands. Even base 12 makes more sense as it is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12 while 10 is only divisbible by 1, 2, 5, and 10. 60 has 12 whole factors and, since we like to divide time up so much, it makes a lot of sense to use the base-60 time system. even if 60 weren't a factor of 360 (useful for making those lovely circular analogue clocks and watches) it still makes a lot of sense as a base system for time.
Why is the fact that Windows is unable to defend itself against any serious scrutiny an argument for not scrutinizing it? If a member of the scientific community tried to get his or her hypothesis accepted on the grounds of its inability to defend itself against scrutinty, they would (rightly) be laughed out of credibility. Shouldn't we hold a company who clambers after more and more power to a corresponding ammount of responsibility?
According to nVidia's linux support people:
"The 2313 drivers do not support GeForce4, though new drivers with GeForce 4 support should be available roughly around the same time GeForce4's make it to the stores."
just in case you were wondering
You should probably not go with fiber. The only advantage fiber really gives you over copper is range. You can get gigabit copper just as easily and much more cheaply than gigabit fiber, you just can't run it reliably more than maybe 150 meters. Besides, if you run fiber you will have to be careful not to bend it too far; fiber works like reflections in a lake, if you're on the edge of the lake you can see the reflection, but you cannot if you are directly above it. Light bounces off the edges of the straight fiber, but if you bend it the signal will be "looking down at the lake" and it won't bounce off. You probably won't be need to bend fiber enought to make a real difference, but if you don't want to worry about loosing your signal due to a few kinks, just go with copper.
The only thing you need to worry about with running the copper all in one big hunk with the phone line is the possiblity of crosstalk. This is due to the magnetic field generated by one wire inducing current in another wire, creating a false signal. This really isn't a big problem unless you have a load o'wires(r) slapped together, but try to locate your central connection endpoint (hub/switch and router, whatever you have) somewhere in the middle of your home. That way you can spiderweb your copper in the directions of the different rooms and never have more than 4 or so lines bundled together.
Now it will be easy to get money from a slot machine and hard to get money from an ATM.
--Luke Crowthers
Screw ease of portability, since it is basically an nForce based PC, what is preventing people from writing an execution environment/mini os for plain old PC's that allow XBox games to be executed _natively_?
I can't see how optimizing certain programs is wrong as long as that is what is going on. When you start deoptimizing everything else, you start moving into serious shithead territory.
How often do you not get to say what you mean in a film in order to make it more marketable or less controversial?
I don't see what record labels want to accomplish. Just because you can't rip the CD doesn't mean you can't plug your cd player's line-out to your computer's line-in, record, and encode. I even think l.a.m.e. can encode to mp3 strait from the line-in. The only thing that copy protection seems to do well is lower the buyer base of a CD. I don't own a CD player other than on my computer, and if it is going to come down to downloading an mp3 of a song or buying a cd player, I'll just download the mp3. Screw 'em.
they might have just pattened these so they could sue the arse off of anyone who creates one. After all, every successfull sale of such a device would be a walking advertisement against cellular telephones. If a lot of people _think_ there is a serious danger in using cell phones, it will be just as bad for business as if there really is.
so THAT's where AIDS came from. and I always thought it came from monkey rapage...
colored light is light that only represents certain parts of the visible spectrum, adding more colors of light will get you closer the seeing the whole spectrum (white). On the other hand, colored pigments absorb certain wavelengths of light -- red (actually magenta) absorbs green light, blue (actually cyan) absorbs red light, and yellow (the only correct one) absorbs blue light. This is why adding more colors of pigment gets you closer to black (more wavelengths of light are absorbed and never reach your eye) you can acheive the primary colors of light with pigments by mixing any two primary pigments: cyan and yellow take away red and blue and you're left with green (this is how you get the "yellow and blue makes green seal"). magenta and yellow take away green and blue and you're left with red, magenta and cyan take away green and red and you're left with blue. tadah
This is absolutely STUPID!
Making people use this browser or that browser is in total contradiction to what the web is all about!
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I contacted s-vision (the people who make sorensen) about what would be required for a port of the codec (ie, to xanim, xmovie, etc) and this is what they sent back: [quote] Thank you for your question about Sorenson Video on unsupported OS platforms. Sorenson Vision has chosen to team up with Apple and their QuickTime product. Because of this, Sorenson Video is only available on supported QuickTime OS platforms. QuickTime is available for Mac OS , Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4. According to Apple, the next platform to be supported will be Mac OS X (including Mac OS X Server), which is Mach/BSD-based. If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows, please contact your platform vendor and let them know that you would like them to license QuickTime from Apple. Once QuickTime is available on a platform, Sorenson Video will be there as well. Maybe you could talk Netscape into working with QuickTime on a simple player plugin? Alvin K. Ogles [unqote] as you can see, they aren't too enthusiastic about releasing sorensen to anyone unless they see pretty substantial support from apple first... perhaps a petition to RedHat or VALinux to license quicktime from Apple would yield results and prove that these companies are really not just here to make lots of money :)