Vista installers are very informative and provide quite a bit of information about what will and will not work
Tell that to my T61, which mysteriously BSOD'd twice while installing. And I'm hardly the only one to encounter issues like this.
For clean installs, it is a bit less clear, but so long as you can get a network connection of some sort with your hardware, the setup update process will usually sort it all out on PIII or newer hardware.
I'm not really sure how the "setup update process" can "sort it all out" if there's no Vista drivers for a particular piece of hardware, which is the case for many people with newer (or even older) video cards, printers, and or other types of gear, and is the entire point of this discussion.
Or dbus, as if there were no othere proven methods for IPC, that don't require another daemon idling around and waking up every other millisecond eating away battery life.
Or you could just fix the daemons. Which then fixes every application which uses them.
But, yeah, let's just throw proper componentization out the window... that's a *way* better idea...
In other words, you disapprove of documentaries targeted at the layman, and presume to judge anyone who would create one. How very elitist of you. I can only assume you take issue with individuals such as Carl Sagan?
At best, you could say he had a very short career as a scientist of minimal significance
No, at best you could say you're wrong, and apparently incapable of admitting it. The fact is, he is a scientist, and he does have published papers. Whether you consider his contributions suitably "significant" is a separate and unrelated matter. Nice try attempting to reframe the debate, though.
Oh, I'm aware. It just seemed rather apropos, considering I've been concerning myself with power management recently, and as such, I've been trying to decide how to manage battery charging. This is particularly challenging given I have an Ultrabay battery... why it is the Thinkpad was designed to fully charge/discharge each battery in turn, I'll never know...
Unless you have any poorly supported hardware, in which case prepare for hours (if not days) of running google searches, reading mailing lists and forums, downloading tarballs, compiling code, and just general fighting before you get everything to work.
Funny, the same is true of Vista.
Maybe you should be laying blame where it's due: the hardware manufacturers.
As little as I like the "there-is-no-stable" mentality of the current kernel development methodology, it's quite clear that it has enabled the kernel devs to incorporate new features into the mainline, and get them tested by a very large user base, in an exceedingly short period of time. Of course, the result is a decline in stability, and as a result, many still pine for the days of the old stable/unstable split. But, it seems the tradeoff is considered worth it by most.
I'm also willing to bet the move to a more distributed source control system has had a large effect. While I'm not convinced of it's utility for corporate development, a distributed source control system, and it's effect on development, seems to have been a very positive change for the kernel developers, and has greatly reduced the burden on Linus, as it makes it very natural for individual subsystem maintainers to groom, test, and incorporate downstream patches before sending the final mods upstream to Linus for inclusion into the kernel proper.
What are these IRQ problems you speak of? I've been running Ubuntu on my T61 (nVidia graphics), and I haven't noticed anything... 'course, that doesn't mean there isn't a problem.:)
Ahh sweet, thanks! I've been running Ubuntu on my recently purchased T61, and while it's been a chore getting the battery life up (powertop, I love you so very much... it's almost as good as Vista, now), I've been struggling with how to deal with this very issue.
If you need a frigging laptop screen before you're willing to read digital books, I don't think you really need an eBook reader at all.
Funny. Sony, among others, seem to disagree with you. Maybe you should tell them, I'm sure they'd love to know why their ebook reader products are, apparently, entirely useless.
education is great and all, but without hard physical resources that education is useless.
And without education, hard physical resources are equally useless. Did it occur to you that maybe *both* are a good thing? That there could be multiple *complimentary* efforts?
Error correction algorithms could produce fuzziness or poor colours or something of that ilk once they get beyond the limits of the redundant data in the stream.
That seems pretty unlikely. At least with something like HDMI, you're far more likely to see visual artifacts, such as bad pixels, etc, or a complete loss of signal. But general "picture degradation"? I *highly* doubt it.
So even with digital there are certainly many states between something working perfectly or not working at all, and they usually have to do with throughput.
And nothing to do with picture or sound quality. If your cabling is shitty enough that you're getting noticeable data loss, it will present itself as a scrambled picture or some other, extremely noticeable effect, not fuzziness or poor colours or something of that ilk.
IOW, while your comment may be true, it doesn't change the fact that Monster's claims are, at best, bogus, at worst, fraud.
It takes me (and most other guitarists) a few seconds to tune a guitar.
Yeah, and can you do it on-stage between songs? The lead for The Tea Party, Jeff Martin, uses self-tuning guitars, as their songs tend to make use of a lot of unusual tunings.
Before selling that scope, you should try doing a bit of planetary observation with it. With a 5", you should have no trouble seeing the rings of Saturn, and some detail in Jupiter's atmosphere (not to mention the Gallilean moons). And all of this should be visible in even heavily light polluted locales.
It's also worth noting that light pollution, represented as the total amount of waste light emitted skyward, doesn't give a realistic picture of the actual effects at ground level. Depending on the locale, things like humidity, atmospheric particulate levels, etc, can have a *dramatic* effect on the number of stars visible, even with moderate levels of light pollution. Consequently, having real, human observations of on-site effects can provide a more realistic picture.
Well, given that studio music *isn't recorded* in surround sound, I fail to see how you can detect "limited bandwidth" in the audio produced by your CDs. Unless, of course, all you ever listen to is movie soundtracks.
IOW, you aren't making any damn sense... but, I'm beginning to realize that's not that surprising.
And, incidentally, DTS and Dolby Digital are both lossy digital audio compression codecs. So I'm not sure how you can possibly believe that a studio CD, encoded as DTS or Dolby Digital, would be of inherently higher quality.
How about just switching my fscking packets and shove your "value added" up your ass.
Truly the words of someone who doesn't know wtf their talking about. See, I want to use VoIP. I want to give the local telco monopolies (lucky, we have two!) the big Fsck You. But because my ISP *disabled* QoS, which would grant my VoIP packets guaranteed low latency, at the expense of throughput, I can't get reliable service, as my calls would cut out the minute a few people decided to fire up bittorrent. Meanwhile, I'm perfectly happy if the packets for the ISO I'm downloading get held up a little bit, as long as the total throughput is nice and high. But, alas it is not to be.
Ironically, in this case, I suspect my ISP (which is the local cable operator) disabled QoS because they wanted to deploy their own VoIP service, which runs over a private network on a separate set of channels. IOW, disabling shaping, in this case, was *anti*-competative.
Gee... maybe this whole "net neutrality" thing isn't so simple after all, eh?
Heh, understatement, given it was literally composed on a laptop.:) But I wouldn't call it a pure electronica album... it's still fairly organic in places, using a lot of live samples produced by the various band members, not to mention Thom's signature vocals.
Then again, my definition of "electronic music", as a style and genre, may be unnecessarily strict...
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Vista installers are very informative and provide quite a bit of information about what will and will not work
Tell that to my T61, which mysteriously BSOD'd twice while installing. And I'm hardly the only one to encounter issues like this.
For clean installs, it is a bit less clear, but so long as you can get a network connection of some sort with your hardware, the setup update process will usually sort it all out on PIII or newer hardware.
I'm not really sure how the "setup update process" can "sort it all out" if there's no Vista drivers for a particular piece of hardware, which is the case for many people with newer (or even older) video cards, printers, and or other types of gear, and is the entire point of this discussion.
Or dbus, as if there were no othere proven methods for IPC, that don't require another daemon idling around and waking up every other millisecond eating away battery life.
Or you could just fix the daemons. Which then fixes every application which uses them.
But, yeah, let's just throw proper componentization out the window... that's a *way* better idea...
Yes but Gore belongs to that notable minority who actually become stupider by thinking.
I see you're also part of said minority.
In other words, you disapprove of documentaries targeted at the layman, and presume to judge anyone who would create one. How very elitist of you. I can only assume you take issue with individuals such as Carl Sagan?
even if he manages to get his named tacked onto the end of some papers presumably as a kind of favor to the PR guy from the real scientists.
So now you're going to start doling out baseless accusations? Nice. Very "scientific" of you.
At best, you could say he had a very short career as a scientist of minimal significance
No, at best you could say you're wrong, and apparently incapable of admitting it. The fact is, he is a scientist, and he does have published papers. Whether you consider his contributions suitably "significant" is a separate and unrelated matter. Nice try attempting to reframe the debate, though.
Oh, I'm aware. It just seemed rather apropos, considering I've been concerning myself with power management recently, and as such, I've been trying to decide how to manage battery charging. This is particularly challenging given I have an Ultrabay battery... why it is the Thinkpad was designed to fully charge/discharge each battery in turn, I'll never know...
Will this do? Hell, I all I had to do was type '"Neil DeGrasse Tyson" papers' into Google. So, are you dumb, or just lazy?
Unless you have any poorly supported hardware, in which case prepare for hours (if not days) of running google searches, reading mailing lists and forums, downloading tarballs, compiling code, and just general fighting before you get everything to work.
Funny, the same is true of Vista.
Maybe you should be laying blame where it's due: the hardware manufacturers.
While the response of FC7 on a 500MHz machine with 128M of RAM is quite snappy in a geological sense, on a human scale it runs like a drunk pig.
So what gives you the (mistaken) belief that this is the fault of the kernel, as opposed to Gnome/KDE/whatever-crap-Fedora-has-layered-on-top?
As little as I like the "there-is-no-stable" mentality of the current kernel development methodology, it's quite clear that it has enabled the kernel devs to incorporate new features into the mainline, and get them tested by a very large user base, in an exceedingly short period of time. Of course, the result is a decline in stability, and as a result, many still pine for the days of the old stable/unstable split. But, it seems the tradeoff is considered worth it by most.
I'm also willing to bet the move to a more distributed source control system has had a large effect. While I'm not convinced of it's utility for corporate development, a distributed source control system, and it's effect on development, seems to have been a very positive change for the kernel developers, and has greatly reduced the burden on Linus, as it makes it very natural for individual subsystem maintainers to groom, test, and incorporate downstream patches before sending the final mods upstream to Linus for inclusion into the kernel proper.
What are these IRQ problems you speak of? I've been running Ubuntu on my T61 (nVidia graphics), and I haven't noticed anything... 'course, that doesn't mean there isn't a problem. :)
Ahh sweet, thanks! I've been running Ubuntu on my recently purchased T61, and while it's been a chore getting the battery life up (powertop, I love you so very much... it's almost as good as Vista, now), I've been struggling with how to deal with this very issue.
If you need a frigging laptop screen before you're willing to read digital books, I don't think you really need an eBook reader at all.
Funny. Sony, among others, seem to disagree with you. Maybe you should tell them, I'm sure they'd love to know why their ebook reader products are, apparently, entirely useless.
Being able to fit into my pocket is for me a non-negotiable feature
Well, at least we know *you* don't want one. But... why do you think we care?
education is great and all, but without hard physical resources that education is useless.
And without education, hard physical resources are equally useless. Did it occur to you that maybe *both* are a good thing? That there could be multiple *complimentary* efforts?
Error correction algorithms could produce fuzziness or poor colours or something of that ilk once they get beyond the limits of the redundant data in the stream.
That seems pretty unlikely. At least with something like HDMI, you're far more likely to see visual artifacts, such as bad pixels, etc, or a complete loss of signal. But general "picture degradation"? I *highly* doubt it.
At least someone's posting cited facts for a change. Pity it was as an AC...
So even with digital there are certainly many states between something working perfectly or not working at all, and they usually have to do with throughput.
And nothing to do with picture or sound quality. If your cabling is shitty enough that you're getting noticeable data loss, it will present itself as a scrambled picture or some other, extremely noticeable effect, not fuzziness or poor colours or something of that ilk.
IOW, while your comment may be true, it doesn't change the fact that Monster's claims are, at best, bogus, at worst, fraud.
It takes me (and most other guitarists) a few seconds to tune a guitar.
Yeah, and can you do it on-stage between songs? The lead for The Tea Party, Jeff Martin, uses self-tuning guitars, as their songs tend to make use of a lot of unusual tunings.
Before selling that scope, you should try doing a bit of planetary observation with it. With a 5", you should have no trouble seeing the rings of Saturn, and some detail in Jupiter's atmosphere (not to mention the Gallilean moons). And all of this should be visible in even heavily light polluted locales.
It's also worth noting that light pollution, represented as the total amount of waste light emitted skyward, doesn't give a realistic picture of the actual effects at ground level. Depending on the locale, things like humidity, atmospheric particulate levels, etc, can have a *dramatic* effect on the number of stars visible, even with moderate levels of light pollution. Consequently, having real, human observations of on-site effects can provide a more realistic picture.
Well, given that studio music *isn't recorded* in surround sound, I fail to see how you can detect "limited bandwidth" in the audio produced by your CDs. Unless, of course, all you ever listen to is movie soundtracks.
IOW, you aren't making any damn sense... but, I'm beginning to realize that's not that surprising.
And, incidentally, DTS and Dolby Digital are both lossy digital audio compression codecs. So I'm not sure how you can possibly believe that a studio CD, encoded as DTS or Dolby Digital, would be of inherently higher quality.
How about just switching my fscking packets and shove your "value added" up your ass.
Truly the words of someone who doesn't know wtf their talking about. See, I want to use VoIP. I want to give the local telco monopolies (lucky, we have two!) the big Fsck You. But because my ISP *disabled* QoS, which would grant my VoIP packets guaranteed low latency, at the expense of throughput, I can't get reliable service, as my calls would cut out the minute a few people decided to fire up bittorrent. Meanwhile, I'm perfectly happy if the packets for the ISO I'm downloading get held up a little bit, as long as the total throughput is nice and high. But, alas it is not to be.
Ironically, in this case, I suspect my ISP (which is the local cable operator) disabled QoS because they wanted to deploy their own VoIP service, which runs over a private network on a separate set of channels. IOW, disabling shaping, in this case, was *anti*-competative.
Gee... maybe this whole "net neutrality" thing isn't so simple after all, eh?
Heh, understatement, given it was literally composed on a laptop. :) But I wouldn't call it a pure electronica album... it's still fairly organic in places, using a lot of live samples produced by the various band members, not to mention Thom's signature vocals.
Then again, my definition of "electronic music", as a style and genre, may be unnecessarily strict...