Not to troll or anything, but what's the point? I've avoided Real Player like the plague because I feel I can't trust them as a company. This means that I miss out on the content that is Real only, but I've made my peace with that. So, given that, why would I want to install Helix, given that it doesn't provide the only major codec that I'm still missing, namely, Real?
The x86 is just really poorly suited to emulate PPC, the PPC has more registers and they're all general purpose, as opposed to x86's small groups of purpose specific registers.
While that may be true, modern emulation techniques take this into account with things like JIT compilation. While an instruction-for-instruction emulation scheme will have performance problems, the same program compiled in C on respective platforms will run with equivalent speed. The program just needs some time to mature for speed.
Me, I plan to try and get onto the list of developers to port to x86-64. Simple emulation should be much easier thanks to the larger register file on AMD's chips...
I think that the spectacular failures of Clippy and Bob have more to do with the attitudes of the characters themselves than the idea. It's like that really upbeat perky girl in the office whom everybody hates. Give me a sarcastic little bitch for a computer, and I'd be happy to embrace such tech...
PS. Please, don't troll me about the free drivers. I want/need real drivers, and not some partial implementation.
What you don't seem to realize is that, while NVidia is better about keeping up to date binary linux drivers, ATI is better about releasing hardware info to the driver devs for older harder, meaning that if you're okay with the second string hardware (as opposed to these $500 monstrosities), you get much better support out of your system because the kernel devs will support you if something breaks...
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What you don't realize is that frequency is not a linear concept. If you take a 3 Khz sound (sine wave), and then add it to a 4 Khz sound, you end up with a 3 Khz sound, a 4 Khz sound, and a 1 Khz sound...
I have read the article, and what this particular article doesn't tell you (but has been in previous articles also posted on slashdot on the same tech), is that two ultrasound beams in parallel come out of the same emitter, and when they hit some object, they reflect in all sorts of directions, which causes them to interact, which cause the beat frequencies to be heard.
You've missed what happens completely. Two different ultra-sonic sounds combine at the focal point, join together linearly, and the beat frequency they create is sonic. Plain old normal sound. The signals themselves are ultra sonic (ie. S1 and S2), but the diff is sonic (S1-S2, or the beat subtracted from S1+S2)
I really hope they implement support for GnuPG in an easy manner. As it is, having a public key doesn't mean much for email, since people sending you email need to do the work for you to receive encrypted email, and you can't send encrypted email unless the other person has a key. GMail could go a long way towards making GnuPG prolific...
With this, I think you'll start to see people hacking their eReaders to have enough memory to hold Nintendo ROMS and an emulator, or some such... I think the hardcopy computer code is a pretty cool idea...
Gather 20 of your closest friends and relatives, give them each a different OS cd, and a different used computer (some laptops, some desktops, different brands, etc.) and have them each install the OS to their liking. After that, let them swap and repeat. For better results, image those systems (with ghost, etc.), and install the images on other systems with different hardware, and do whatever it takes to get them going on the new system. Finally, take a couple of the systems, have someone who didn't work on it go over to it and remove the crap that the other person put on it, and install it to their taste.
After this, you will finally have an environment that reflects what really happens in most computer networks. Image again, and save one image per machine, and you should be all set. (Unless you want to swap some hardware around, like NICs, or modems)
I work for a company that writes systems management software for windows and *nix systems, shameless plug, and each of the QA machines have a different OS, and a mix of languages for color. We've got solaris boxen, macs, linux in many different flavors, and every x86 Microsoft OS released since September '95 (except Windows ME, 'cause no one really counts that as an OS;) )
We've got used computers from many different vendors, servers, desktops, etc., and let me tell you that we encounter many more issues in captivity because of it...
This is downright welcome! Some portion of you are going to consider this flamebait, but shouldn't online chat be held to the same restrictions that other conversations are?
If we had the easy ability to do audio searches, would there be phones that recorded a history of the last n hours of conversation you had? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should...
OT, but obviously spoken by someone who's never had sex in a swimming pool. Besides the chlorination issue (too much and it burns later), water is one shitty lubricant, and manages to wash away the natural ones. It's still fun (do it if you get the chance, especially in a hot tub), but it's not more passionate, just a little more naughty...
I agree wholeheartedly. I write systems management software, and my company often uses ethereal (on linux and windows) to check the contents of RPC calls, and other significant traffic...
Ahhh, you missed the wording in the FAQ. The Berne convention says nothing about works from other member nations. It prohibits imposing formalities on works from authors from other member nations.
Changing where you publish from doesn't change your nationality, unless you stay to apply for citizenship, and then through direct action before the U.S. judicial system, revoke your own U.S. citizenship (If you don't formally revoke your citizenship in front of the U.S. judicial system, you will retain dual citizenship, even if that's in contradiction with the laws of your new country).
Finally, I think you overestimate the loss of author control this would bring about. Authors lived under a system of registration for literally hundreds of years before it just recently changed.
Wow... Now I can have Family Guy with me everywhere I go...:)
Re:Server is already slow - here's the text
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Has anyone thought that the problem reading it is most likely due to the format? Mount it under linux, run a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever and wipe any partition off, then repartition... (I doubt that the Canon Digital Rebel recognizes HFS...)
I've got DSL from Wanadoo (France Telecom), and they do things like forcefully change my IP address three times a day, which sucks great big donkey balls if I'm in the middle of a phone conversation. (I use Vonage to talk with friends and family in the States) I pay 13 Euro every two months for the phone line I don't use, and 80 for each month for 1024/128 (I just found it was 128 up, they sold it to me as 1024/256).
WTF? Where are you from? If you go to a building, and blow it up with a bomb, you will get your ass handed to you, both in court, and in jail. If, however, you write a book about bombs, you can go about your happy way, because there is nothing illegal about writing about an act that is illegal.
Writing a book that urges people to blow up buildings with bombs that you explain how to make, is a third issue entirely, and is, again, illegal.
Re:It will take years for these standards to settl
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Let's hope that's the case. In fact, if you have any care about freedom, implement your own DRM system NOW. Make it buggy, and difficult to implement. Make it confusing for users of the technology, and make sure that any free and open formats JUST WORK. That way, when everything settles down, what is most used, and what becomes the "standard", will be what people have migrated too, DRM-less options...
<tongue firmly in cheek>Instead of paying the $1000 for VS, buy an Itanium server. The VS compiler is free for IA64 (though it doesn't come with the IDE). It's included in the (free) MSDN download</tongue>
If you're ever in Berlin, take the time to go to the museum at Checkpoint Charlie (one of the more used gates in the Berlin wall). There you will see the simply amazing lengths that people went to get to the other side of that wall.
Do you remember those little mini-submarine things that scuba divers use in James Bond movies? (The ones that you hold on to and they pull you along.) That was invented by a guy whose sole purpose for it was to escape East Berlin.
Other inventions included the armored car, and a small motor that took something like one-third the size of a normal automobile engine allowing a person to be hidden in the remaining space.
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Not to troll or anything, but what's the point? I've avoided Real Player like the plague because I feel I can't trust them as a company. This means that I miss out on the content that is Real only, but I've made my peace with that. So, given that, why would I want to install Helix, given that it doesn't provide the only major codec that I'm still missing, namely, Real?
The x86 is just really poorly suited to emulate PPC, the PPC has more registers and they're all general purpose, as opposed to x86's small groups of purpose specific registers.
While that may be true, modern emulation techniques take this into account with things like JIT compilation. While an instruction-for-instruction emulation scheme will have performance problems, the same program compiled in C on respective platforms will run with equivalent speed. The program just needs some time to mature for speed.
Me, I plan to try and get onto the list of developers to port to x86-64. Simple emulation should be much easier thanks to the larger register file on AMD's chips...
I think that the spectacular failures of Clippy and Bob have more to do with the attitudes of the characters themselves than the idea. It's like that really upbeat perky girl in the office whom everybody hates. Give me a sarcastic little bitch for a computer, and I'd be happy to embrace such tech...
PS. Please, don't troll me about the free drivers. I want/need real drivers, and not some partial implementation. What you don't seem to realize is that, while NVidia is better about keeping up to date binary linux drivers, ATI is better about releasing hardware info to the driver devs for older harder, meaning that if you're okay with the second string hardware (as opposed to these $500 monstrosities), you get much better support out of your system because the kernel devs will support you if something breaks...
What you don't realize is that frequency is not a linear concept. If you take a 3 Khz sound (sine wave), and then add it to a 4 Khz sound, you end up with a 3 Khz sound, a 4 Khz sound, and a 1 Khz sound...
I have read the article, and what this particular article doesn't tell you (but has been in previous articles also posted on slashdot on the same tech), is that two ultrasound beams in parallel come out of the same emitter, and when they hit some object, they reflect in all sorts of directions, which causes them to interact, which cause the beat frequencies to be heard.
You've missed what happens completely. Two different ultra-sonic sounds combine at the focal point, join together linearly, and the beat frequency they create is sonic. Plain old normal sound. The signals themselves are ultra sonic (ie. S1 and S2), but the diff is sonic (S1-S2, or the beat subtracted from S1+S2)
I'd hate to be the guy who's plugged in when there's a power surge...
It's off to Klendathu! The bugs are hurling meteorites!
I really hope they implement support for GnuPG in an easy manner. As it is, having a public key doesn't mean much for email, since people sending you email need to do the work for you to receive encrypted email, and you can't send encrypted email unless the other person has a key. GMail could go a long way towards making GnuPG prolific...
I'd rather have an older, less advanced car that I actually have a chance of fixing. Who needs all this new car technology anyways?
Wow... A debian stable user if I ever heard one...
With this, I think you'll start to see people hacking their eReaders to have enough memory to hold Nintendo ROMS and an emulator, or some such... I think the hardcopy computer code is a pretty cool idea...
Gather 20 of your closest friends and relatives, give them each a different OS cd, and a different used computer (some laptops, some desktops, different brands, etc.) and have them each install the OS to their liking. After that, let them swap and repeat. For better results, image those systems (with ghost, etc.), and install the images on other systems with different hardware, and do whatever it takes to get them going on the new system. Finally, take a couple of the systems, have someone who didn't work on it go over to it and remove the crap that the other person put on it, and install it to their taste.
After this, you will finally have an environment that reflects what really happens in most computer networks. Image again, and save one image per machine, and you should be all set. (Unless you want to swap some hardware around, like NICs, or modems)
I work for a company that writes systems management software for windows and *nix systems, shameless plug, and each of the QA machines have a different OS, and a mix of languages for color. We've got solaris boxen, macs, linux in many different flavors, and every x86 Microsoft OS released since September '95 (except Windows ME, 'cause no one really counts that as an OS ;) )
We've got used computers from many different vendors, servers, desktops, etc., and let me tell you that we encounter many more issues in captivity because of it...
This is downright welcome! Some portion of you are going to consider this flamebait, but shouldn't online chat be held to the same restrictions that other conversations are?
If we had the easy ability to do audio searches, would there be phones that recorded a history of the last n hours of conversation you had? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should...
OT, but obviously spoken by someone who's never had sex in a swimming pool. Besides the chlorination issue (too much and it burns later), water is one shitty lubricant, and manages to wash away the natural ones. It's still fun (do it if you get the chance, especially in a hot tub), but it's not more passionate, just a little more naughty...
I agree wholeheartedly. I write systems management software, and my company often uses ethereal (on linux and windows) to check the contents of RPC calls, and other significant traffic...
Ahhh, you missed the wording in the FAQ. The Berne convention says nothing about works from other member nations. It prohibits imposing formalities on works from authors from other member nations.
Changing where you publish from doesn't change your nationality, unless you stay to apply for citizenship, and then through direct action before the U.S. judicial system, revoke your own U.S. citizenship (If you don't formally revoke your citizenship in front of the U.S. judicial system, you will retain dual citizenship, even if that's in contradiction with the laws of your new country).
Finally, I think you overestimate the loss of author control this would bring about. Authors lived under a system of registration for literally hundreds of years before it just recently changed.
Wow... Now I can have Family Guy with me everywhere I go... :)
Has anyone thought that the problem reading it is most likely due to the format? Mount it under linux, run a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever and wipe any partition off, then repartition... (I doubt that the Canon Digital Rebel recognizes HFS...)
I am ANNA! (automaton-nuclear-neohuman-android)
I've got DSL from Wanadoo (France Telecom), and they do things like forcefully change my IP address three times a day, which sucks great big donkey balls if I'm in the middle of a phone conversation. (I use Vonage to talk with friends and family in the States) I pay 13 Euro every two months for the phone line I don't use, and 80 for each month for 1024/128 (I just found it was 128 up, they sold it to me as 1024/256).
WTF? Where are you from? If you go to a building, and blow it up with a bomb, you will get your ass handed to you, both in court, and in jail. If, however, you write a book about bombs, you can go about your happy way, because there is nothing illegal about writing about an act that is illegal.
Writing a book that urges people to blow up buildings with bombs that you explain how to make, is a third issue entirely, and is, again, illegal.
Let's hope that's the case. In fact, if you have any care about freedom, implement your own DRM system NOW. Make it buggy, and difficult to implement. Make it confusing for users of the technology, and make sure that any free and open formats JUST WORK. That way, when everything settles down, what is most used, and what becomes the "standard", will be what people have migrated too, DRM-less options...
<tongue firmly in cheek>Instead of paying the $1000 for VS, buy an Itanium server. The VS compiler is free for IA64 (though it doesn't come with the IDE). It's included in the (free) MSDN download</tongue>
If you're ever in Berlin, take the time to go to the museum at Checkpoint Charlie (one of the more used gates in the Berlin wall). There you will see the simply amazing lengths that people went to get to the other side of that wall.
Do you remember those little mini-submarine things that scuba divers use in James Bond movies? (The ones that you hold on to and they pull you along.) That was invented by a guy whose sole purpose for it was to escape East Berlin.
Other inventions included the armored car, and a small motor that took something like one-third the size of a normal automobile engine allowing a person to be hidden in the remaining space.