Forget the speed of light, the sound barrier alone will stop us cold in our tracks. Good luck getting those crazy heavier-than-air ships off the ground too. The future is in trains and zeppelins.
It shouldn't really be surprising. He's not an idiot. The Macs that he worked on for Q3 are nothing like today's Macs, and I guarantee you that Steve is making sure that whatever happened between id and Apple before is never repeated. Steve's no idiot either. We all say "never this" and "never that" and we don't always mean it. I used to say I'd never use a Mac, but now that it's a much better platform, I've been giving it serious contemplation that I never did before. I actually respect it now. Things change.
In an odd coincidence, I was just have the same debate with a friend a couple days ago. I feel the same way. And not just about comedy. He was on about a particular film, and how a certain other film was tripe because it had little artistic value. The key to his argument was that movie A was a smaller production that didn't get much media attention, while movie B was a big Hollywood blockbuster. So any successful Hollywood film can't be art in his eyes. I only responded that I'm glad I'm not a snob, because it allows me to enjoy so many more good movies.
He wouldn't have to lose it. Either build the new RAID and copy striaght over, or do it the unfun way. When he buys the new disks, copy some of the data from the RAID to one disk until it's full, repeat until you have a copy of all the data. Reformat the RAID disks to normal drives, recopy the data back to the now un-RAIDed old disks. Recreate the RAID with the new ones, and re-recopy the data back. Not fun, but it works.
I agree. It's the old concept of investment. Investing a little now is worth a lot more later. Investing one more minute now in commenting your code saves hours of puzzling later when you need to edit it.
no, thw whine he's describing is incredibly high pitched to the point of hurting ones ears sharply if it's too loud. I've had to have coworkers get their CRTs swapped out for better ones because I just couldn't work around the screeching pitch.
True, but I was thinking of computer monitors, which operate at higher freqs. They have a higher audible pitch than TVs too, and aren't as "loud". But 15khz explains why TVs are _so_ much louder.
I hear cathode ray tube TVs every time they're turned on and am continually amazed when other people don't. It's not just from seeing the TV. If a fairly big CRT is on in the next room, I can hear it pretty easily if the room is only somewhat quiet. It's a light, but high pitched, constant whine. Very distinctive. LCD's don't emit it. Just CRTs.
I'm in the US, and I can hear CRTs and such too. I'm 29 and can still hear them quite clearly. Never double blind tested like the other guy, but I can walk into a house and tell you if there's a TV on in it or not. When I was younger I'd turn the volume to zero and have my mother randomly flip it on or off and I'd be in the next room and could tell, which is close enough for me. I think it's the step up transformer we hear.
Someone else said this, but I still don't get it. How the hell do you get 16.2 million from 6 bits per channel?it's 262k colors, not 16.2, so even claiming 16.2 is still a lie. Does the math with dithering using 6 bits somehow work out to 16.2, which just happens to be close to 16.7? Seriously, I don't get it, I'm not trolling. I want someone to educate me here.
Only a small subset of women would have this ability, and their male children will always be color blind, as noted here and here. The second article (from my hometown paper, so it must be infallible) quotes a researcher that there might be about 99 million women who can actually see the full tetrachromatic spectrum, or about 3 in a hundred women.
IMO, no, it has not even come close to jumping the shark. There were some less-than stellar episodes, but they were usually the stand-alone eps that would not have been made in a shorter season. There's so much foreshadowing in this series that it's the exact opposite of deus-ex-machina because with hindsight, you can see exactly where the ground work for almost everything was laid.
It's not a valid argument because I can find inflated numbers from scalpers for 360's and PS3's also. I can go to the store or online and by a Wii at MSRP, with a little work.
So you compare the MSRP, the price at retail, to a scalper's price. Now that's solid evidence. Try comparing apples to apples. 400 to 250, 62.5% of the price, or half the price of the PS3.
That's it! Thank you. I figured it was Feynman, but it's been 15 years since I read his books, and my google-fu is weak with I have a headache. Thanks.:)
I always liked explaining it with a paraphrased quote I just cannot recall the origin of, "As long as you think you understand Quantum Mechanics, you don't."
I doubt I'll explain this to you any better than anyone else. No. The only thing "required" to have your program be able to read or write Ogg Vorbis files is just that, make your program read or write ogg vorbis files. How you do it is 100% up to you. You can do it in Perl, or Visual Basic, or C64 Assembly if you want. You do not have to use anyone else's code. You do not have to license anything, including the name.
There are no terms or conditions on use of the format at all, ever, anywhere.
The only terms and conditions on the use of the provided BSD-licensed source is to abide by the BSD license, which is basically give credit where credit is due; If you use the provided source, credit it; if you redistribute the provided source, credit it; don't claim your use of that source is somehow an endorsement.
It's an open standard because the group who created it allows anyone to use it for any purpose, hence being open, and they continue to maintain, support, and publicly publish the exact structure and operation of the format, hence making it a standard.
However, I do not think that will explain it to you, as I think you are merely trolling for responses.
Zero because you can't run OSX on any non-Apple hardware according to the EULA. The Inspiron hack is just that, a hack, because it has similar hardware to the Mini. It doesn't cost you a single penny more than a regular OSX license.
If sounds like a Mac penalty because you didn't listen. They require the pricier version of Vista for ALL virtualization, not just on Macs. If you want to run Vista in a VM on a PC you're under the same requirement by the EULA.
I was thinking the same thing, then I finally looked at the user name. I was amazed Bruce Perens would be slumming around here. He can afford better people to converse with!;)
You hit the nail on the head. When I want a specific book and am willing to wait, I'll order it from Amazon. Amazon makes $20. But, when I'm just in a reading mood, I'll head to my local B&N, browse the magazine rack, pick up 3 or 4, peruse the books, pick up 3 or 4, pay for them ("That'll be $112.47 sir"), and sit in the cafe section for three hours munching and drinking. B&N made $150 while Amazon made $20. Sure, Amazon made a larger % of profit, but B&N made more total money from me, because I love the atmosphere.
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Forget the speed of light, the sound barrier alone will stop us cold in our tracks. Good luck getting those crazy heavier-than-air ships off the ground too. The future is in trains and zeppelins.
It shouldn't really be surprising. He's not an idiot. The Macs that he worked on for Q3 are nothing like today's Macs, and I guarantee you that Steve is making sure that whatever happened between id and Apple before is never repeated. Steve's no idiot either. We all say "never this" and "never that" and we don't always mean it. I used to say I'd never use a Mac, but now that it's a much better platform, I've been giving it serious contemplation that I never did before. I actually respect it now. Things change.
In an odd coincidence, I was just have the same debate with a friend a couple days ago. I feel the same way. And not just about comedy. He was on about a particular film, and how a certain other film was tripe because it had little artistic value. The key to his argument was that movie A was a smaller production that didn't get much media attention, while movie B was a big Hollywood blockbuster. So any successful Hollywood film can't be art in his eyes. I only responded that I'm glad I'm not a snob, because it allows me to enjoy so many more good movies.
"Note to authors: If you don't understand what words mean, don't use them."
That's ironic.
He wouldn't have to lose it. Either build the new RAID and copy striaght over, or do it the unfun way. When he buys the new disks, copy some of the data from the RAID to one disk until it's full, repeat until you have a copy of all the data. Reformat the RAID disks to normal drives, recopy the data back to the now un-RAIDed old disks. Recreate the RAID with the new ones, and re-recopy the data back. Not fun, but it works.
I agree. It's the old concept of investment. Investing a little now is worth a lot more later. Investing one more minute now in commenting your code saves hours of puzzling later when you need to edit it.
no, thw whine he's describing is incredibly high pitched to the point of hurting ones ears sharply if it's too loud. I've had to have coworkers get their CRTs swapped out for better ones because I just couldn't work around the screeching pitch.
True, but I was thinking of computer monitors, which operate at higher freqs. They have a higher audible pitch than TVs too, and aren't as "loud". But 15khz explains why TVs are _so_ much louder.
I hear cathode ray tube TVs every time they're turned on and am continually amazed when other people don't. It's not just from seeing the TV. If a fairly big CRT is on in the next room, I can hear it pretty easily if the room is only somewhat quiet. It's a light, but high pitched, constant whine. Very distinctive. LCD's don't emit it. Just CRTs.
I'm in the US, and I can hear CRTs and such too. I'm 29 and can still hear them quite clearly. Never double blind tested like the other guy, but I can walk into a house and tell you if there's a TV on in it or not. When I was younger I'd turn the volume to zero and have my mother randomly flip it on or off and I'd be in the next room and could tell, which is close enough for me. I think it's the step up transformer we hear.
If enough people are breaking a law, isn't it a good sign that said law might need reevaluated?
Someone else said this, but I still don't get it. How the hell do you get 16.2 million from 6 bits per channel?it's 262k colors, not 16.2, so even claiming 16.2 is still a lie. Does the math with dithering using 6 bits somehow work out to 16.2, which just happens to be close to 16.7? Seriously, I don't get it, I'm not trolling. I want someone to educate me here.
Only a small subset of women would have this ability, and their male children will always be color blind, as noted here and here. The second article (from my hometown paper, so it must be infallible) quotes a researcher that there might be about 99 million women who can actually see the full tetrachromatic spectrum, or about 3 in a hundred women.
user@domain.org doesn't work in IE anymore, and Firefox prompts you whit a big honking warning.
IMO, no, it has not even come close to jumping the shark. There were some less-than stellar episodes, but they were usually the stand-alone eps that would not have been made in a shorter season. There's so much foreshadowing in this series that it's the exact opposite of deus-ex-machina because with hindsight, you can see exactly where the ground work for almost everything was laid.
It's not a valid argument because I can find inflated numbers from scalpers for 360's and PS3's also. I can go to the store or online and by a Wii at MSRP, with a little work.
So you compare the MSRP, the price at retail, to a scalper's price. Now that's solid evidence. Try comparing apples to apples. 400 to 250, 62.5% of the price, or half the price of the PS3.
That's it! Thank you. I figured it was Feynman, but it's been 15 years since I read his books, and my google-fu is weak with I have a headache. Thanks. :)
I always liked explaining it with a paraphrased quote I just cannot recall the origin of, "As long as you think you understand Quantum Mechanics, you don't."
I doubt I'll explain this to you any better than anyone else. No. The only thing "required" to have your program be able to read or write Ogg Vorbis files is just that, make your program read or write ogg vorbis files. How you do it is 100% up to you. You can do it in Perl, or Visual Basic, or C64 Assembly if you want. You do not have to use anyone else's code. You do not have to license anything, including the name.
There are no terms or conditions on use of the format at all, ever, anywhere.
The only terms and conditions on the use of the provided BSD-licensed source is to abide by the BSD license, which is basically give credit where credit is due; If you use the provided source, credit it; if you redistribute the provided source, credit it; don't claim your use of that source is somehow an endorsement.
It's an open standard because the group who created it allows anyone to use it for any purpose, hence being open, and they continue to maintain, support, and publicly publish the exact structure and operation of the format, hence making it a standard.
However, I do not think that will explain it to you, as I think you are merely trolling for responses.
"Be free, hackers, be free..."
Zero because you can't run OSX on any non-Apple hardware according to the EULA. The Inspiron hack is just that, a hack, because it has similar hardware to the Mini. It doesn't cost you a single penny more than a regular OSX license.
Well, you're under the same penalty if you use Parallels, or MS's own Virtual PC, but yes.
If sounds like a Mac penalty because you didn't listen. They require the pricier version of Vista for ALL virtualization, not just on Macs. If you want to run Vista in a VM on a PC you're under the same requirement by the EULA.
I was thinking the same thing, then I finally looked at the user name. I was amazed Bruce Perens would be slumming around here. He can afford better people to converse with! ;)
You hit the nail on the head. When I want a specific book and am willing to wait, I'll order it from Amazon. Amazon makes $20. But, when I'm just in a reading mood, I'll head to my local B&N, browse the magazine rack, pick up 3 or 4, peruse the books, pick up 3 or 4, pay for them ("That'll be $112.47 sir"), and sit in the cafe section for three hours munching and drinking. B&N made $150 while Amazon made $20. Sure, Amazon made a larger % of profit, but B&N made more total money from me, because I love the atmosphere.