You're missing the fact that if you electrolyse salt water, you mostly get hydrogen and chlorine, not hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen stays behind with the sodium to leave you with sodium hydroxide (and small amounts of hypochlorite).
Hell no, the E7205 was pretty good; rock solid stable and very overclockable (mine is running a HT 3GHz chip with 1GB RAM at 800MHz perfectly). It's a shame that they were eclipsed so quickly by the 875 et al
Not buying it, then, if that's true. I use CloneCD to make un-fucked-up copies of audio disks that use Cactus et al, so I can play them in my car CD player. I'm not uninstalling it for some shitty "anti-piracy" system which actually disadvantages the sucker that PAID for the game.
In the meantime the Cygwin X server works well for me. It has normal (entire x desktop in one huge window) and root (X and Win32 windows mixed) modes, with a special window manager for the latter. There's an experimental GLX accelerated build as well.
the parent poster was trying to say that tube amps were better because they made his guitar sound better
Actually I was just responded to someone who didn't seem to understand why anyone would want to use DSP to emulate tubes. Most guitarists would agree that:
1. Preamp distortion is nice but not the whole story; you need to drive the power stage hard too.
2. The actual "amplification" bit is really a pain, and has spawned many workaround like dummy loads and speaker cab emulators. Life would be much easier if one could parcel up the sound of a 100W stack in a box.
Personally I think the problem is one of scale; if you want the sound of 4 x 12" speakers driven to the point of breakup, you just have to shovel that much air. It's not helped by the inherent non-linearity of the human ear & perception.
Now if you're talking pro sound reproduction, I'd go with solid state simply for ease of use. It's just SIMPLER to design a good solid state power amplifier, right up to the point where you need silly powers (MW) at silly frequencies (MHz). Then the valve is still attractive, whereas a lot of the advantages of solid state design start to look less good - both designs are going to need water cooling systems, and designing an unconditionally stable negative feedback amplifier gets hard when your power devices start to run out of gain whereas valve designs tend not to rely on negative feedback so much.
Not a guitar player, are you? A guitar amp that amplifies "evenly and without clipping or distortion" is exactly what we DON'T want.
The reason why valve amps are still popular and DSP hasn't completely replaced them is because an overdriven valve amp colours EVERY aspect of the sound, from additional harmonic content through dynamic response to filtering. The transfer function is extremely complex. I believe that the modelling amps & preamps (like Line 6 POD-type devices) involve convolving the input with the measured impulse responses of the real thing, under controlled conditions. This is necessarily limited to the precision of the DSP and the original measurements. Don't forget that there's all sorts of bizarre coupling going on in a valve amp; even new valves can be microphonic, and if the head is sat on a 4x12" cabinet then the vibrations are going to couple back to the pre and power valves. Then you have the coupling transformer and the power supply (often also using a valve rectifier, which makes its own contribution).
Finally you have nutters like Vai, who on "Skyscraper" with Dave Lee Roth apparently drove (and destroyed) 50W speakers from a 100W head for the additional tonal qualities resulting from speaker cone break-up & mechanical clipping.
Er, no. They'll follow suit because MP3 costs $$$ to license in commercial applications, and OGG is free beer. They could care less about the tiny performance differences.
It looks like a solution of fluorescein, which is an organic fluorescent dye. It's used as an injection in angiography to allow small blood vessels in the eye to be examined, and in anti-freeze so that leaks can be found more easily.
In the monitor glass; the alternative is not having children;-)
Seriously, look at the bigger monitor tubes (especially in the EU); they have a radio-dosage sticker certifying the level of beta radiation emitted, usually at the preset acceleration voltage.
OK. Open Adobe ImageReady and create a history script of the actions that you want to perform, using a sample image. Note that because it's a GUI application you have immediate visual feedback, and will thus get it right. Now export that script as what Adobe call a "Droplet", setting default options for output file naming, directories etc. Now, using your file explorer, drag and drop the files you want to convert onto the droplet.
Provided we teach them that recompiling applications in Linux is a fairly easy task, or better yet, make recompiling applications in Linux even easier
What? EVEN easier? How is recompiling things "easy" in Linux? Most end users don't have a clue what to do with a compiler for EITHER architecture; expecting granny to rebuild & relink her apps is not going to happen. Hell, I'm a professional software developer with 10+ years experience of both Linux and Windows, and I just wasted a weekend trying to rebuild Kerberos on Linux because of symbol versioning problems. This is EASY?
From a developer point of view, the hard work in this sort of change is TESTING, not COMPILING. And precious little of that gets done by developers on EITHER side of the FOSS fence.
A studio quality uncompressed HDTV stream (at least as per BBC R&D Kingswood Warren 10 years ago) was about 1.2 Gbit/s (I believe that's 1250 line 50 Hz interlaced). We used to fit two of them into an STM-16 over fibre for the studio optical routing project I was fortunate enough to work on, back in 1993. MPEG-2 was still being worked on back then, but wouldn't have been used for studio quality signalling anyway.
So, probably more like 150 MB/s (less for the US / Japan since they use 1080 lines). Now, MPEG-2 might get you 10-fold compression or better, but that requires a hardware codec.
You have GOT to be kidding; on my Windows Domains, it is ABSOLUTELY trivial to install printers & network print queues and push them to client desktops; it's this little thing called a "directory service" see; now while I'm sure Active Directory isn't the greatest directory service ever written, it's lightyears ahead of anything on Linux in terms of integration, ease of use, and functionality.
Sure, you can roll your own (probably superior) solution from the standard OpenLDAP, Kerberos etc. packages (unless you run Debian, in which case you'll also end up compiling your own support libraries to get usable version). However, AD is there, it works, it offers a migration path from NT domains, and it provides a huge degree of control over the client machines.
Lock the machines down. Use a filtering proxy server for HTTP. Don't let users install stuff or change system settings. Set up a separate class of domain users & machine security groups for public access machines, or firewall them off completely. Disable Javascript as a system policy and DON'T LET THE BUGGERS CHANGE IT BACK. This is all stuff that the domain administrator can set as policy for groups of machines running NT4 or later.
Alternatively, a locked down linux install might be good enough for casual public use (but watch out for people with their entire thesis in a single bastard-sized Word document complete with 200 high resolution images who WILL make your life hell when OpenOffice can't import it exactly the way they want.)
Even better, just ghost the install over the network every night; reformat & reinstall automatically.
Of course, these estimates depend on which scientists are making the estimates--the ones who predicted we'd all be living in a utopia of perfectly fitting unitards or the ones who've crashed two space shuttles in 17 years
I think you might find those scientists were managers...
But that IS where the per-user registry settings are kept, in a binary hive in the user's profile directory. The only difference is, it's not a plain text file. Instead, you can load the hive using the registry editor, separate from the currently loaded registry settings.
isn't the rather poor shell utilities, it's the extensions to the Active Directory schema that allow you to authenticate users on Linux against a Windows 2000 DC using OpenLDAP and PAM. It works very well to give a single sign-on setup in a hetereogenous environment.
It's marketed as a means of migrating NIS users to AD, but it works even better for LDAP, with suitable libnss_ldap.conf and pam_ldap.conf files. The only previous solution was AD4UNIX which no longer seems to be maintained, and is flaky on later service packs. For us, having this for free is good news.
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Well, maybe the fact that MS didn't write libpng? D'uh.
Hell no, the E7205 was pretty good; rock solid stable and very overclockable (mine is running a HT 3GHz chip with 1GB RAM at 800MHz perfectly). It's a shame that they were eclipsed so quickly by the 875 et al
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Actually I was just responded to someone who didn't seem to understand why anyone would want to use DSP to emulate tubes. Most guitarists would agree that:
1. Preamp distortion is nice but not the whole story; you need to drive the power stage hard too.
2. The actual "amplification" bit is really a pain, and has spawned many workaround like dummy loads and speaker cab emulators. Life would be much easier if one could parcel up the sound of a 100W stack in a box.
Personally I think the problem is one of scale; if you want the sound of 4 x 12" speakers driven to the point of breakup, you just have to shovel that much air. It's not helped by the inherent non-linearity of the human ear & perception.
Now if you're talking pro sound reproduction, I'd go with solid state simply for ease of use. It's just SIMPLER to design a good solid state power amplifier, right up to the point where you need silly powers (MW) at silly frequencies (MHz). Then the valve is still attractive, whereas a lot of the advantages of solid state design start to look less good - both designs are going to need water cooling systems, and designing an unconditionally stable negative feedback amplifier gets hard when your power devices start to run out of gain whereas valve designs tend not to rely on negative feedback so much.
Jon.
The reason why valve amps are still popular and DSP hasn't completely replaced them is because an overdriven valve amp colours EVERY aspect of the sound, from additional harmonic content through dynamic response to filtering. The transfer function is extremely complex. I believe that the modelling amps & preamps (like Line 6 POD-type devices) involve convolving the input with the measured impulse responses of the real thing, under controlled conditions. This is necessarily limited to the precision of the DSP and the original measurements. Don't forget that there's all sorts of bizarre coupling going on in a valve amp; even new valves can be microphonic, and if the head is sat on a 4x12" cabinet then the vibrations are going to couple back to the pre and power valves. Then you have the coupling transformer and the power supply (often also using a valve rectifier, which makes its own contribution).
Finally you have nutters like Vai, who on "Skyscraper" with Dave Lee Roth apparently drove (and destroyed) 50W speakers from a 100W head for the additional tonal qualities resulting from speaker cone break-up & mechanical clipping.
Hell no, we don't want a CLEAN amp.
Jon.
Here's your loop; run along now.
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Fine, WRITE to MS and ask them to send it to you on a CDROM, for the princely sum of about $3.00 shipping.
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It looks like a solution of fluorescein, which is an organic fluorescent dye. It's used as an injection in angiography to allow small blood vessels in the eye to be examined, and in anti-freeze so that leaks can be found more easily.
Jon.
Actually, IIRC the BMW prototype hydrogen car on display in the BMW museum in Munich used a pretty much stock 3 litre V6 with some carburettor mods.
Jon.
Seriously, look at the bigger monitor tubes (especially in the EU); they have a radio-dosage sticker certifying the level of beta radiation emitted, usually at the preset acceleration voltage.
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Your point, caller?
Jon.
What? EVEN easier? How is recompiling things "easy" in Linux? Most end users don't have a clue what to do with a compiler for EITHER architecture; expecting granny to rebuild & relink her apps is not going to happen. Hell, I'm a professional software developer with 10+ years experience of both Linux and Windows, and I just wasted a weekend trying to rebuild Kerberos on Linux because of symbol versioning problems. This is EASY?
From a developer point of view, the hard work in this sort of change is TESTING, not COMPILING. And precious little of that gets done by developers on EITHER side of the FOSS fence.
Jon.
So, probably more like 150 MB/s (less for the US / Japan since they use 1080 lines). Now, MPEG-2 might get you 10-fold compression or better, but that requires a hardware codec.
Jon.
Sure, you can roll your own (probably superior) solution from the standard OpenLDAP, Kerberos etc. packages (unless you run Debian, in which case you'll also end up compiling your own support libraries to get usable version). However, AD is there, it works, it offers a migration path from NT domains, and it provides a huge degree of control over the client machines.
Jon.
Jon.
Jon.
Alternatively, a locked down linux install might be good enough for casual public use (but watch out for people with their entire thesis in a single bastard-sized Word document complete with 200 high resolution images who WILL make your life hell when OpenOffice can't import it exactly the way they want.)
Even better, just ghost the install over the network every night; reformat & reinstall automatically.
Jon.
I think you might find those scientists were managers...
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Jon.
It's marketed as a means of migrating NIS users to AD, but it works even better for LDAP, with suitable libnss_ldap.conf and pam_ldap.conf files. The only previous solution was AD4UNIX which no longer seems to be maintained, and is flaky on later service packs. For us, having this for free is good news.
Jon