English has survived over a thousand years with hardly any sort of educational system to enforce its rules upon the masses.
Yes. And then, for a further thousand years, this English, or proto-English, really, developed into a modern language, complete with an alphabet. And gradually, more and more of the population became literate, as more and more families sent their kids off to funny little institutions called "schools", where "teachers" taught their "students" how to "read". And once they could read, these persons could learn "problem solving skills" (though, in the olden days, they called it logic) and arithmetic (basic math) and natural philosophy (science).
Windows/PCs have 100,000s of different devices, all from 3rd party manufacturers. Each device must have it's own device driver running in kernel space, and defects in the device drivers can crash the system. Many of the drivers are rapidly changing and not well-tested. This is the biggest cause of Windows OS crashes.
It seems to me that "must have it's own device driver running in kernel space" is an engineering problem that must have an engineering solution. Perhaps a microkernel?
Probably because iTunes uses Smart Playlists. "vFolder" is pretty uninspiring. Is it a "fifth generation" folder? Is it shaped like a 'V'? Will it be used in litigation? Is it associated with a verb, or action? Is it an assistant to a real Folder? Will it bring Victory? Does it does it refer to the designer's first experience of love, rolling around in a meadow, surrounded by violets?
Eventually, some script kiddie will come along and extrapolate from this paper. Containing the resulting outbreak, while not completely impossible will be most difficult
It's like the government knowing what you are checking out of the library. It makes you think again about trying to get a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook, you know, even if you feel that you have the right to read it...
The point of the anarchist cookbook was that it collated material from a number of "dangerous books." No longer would Americans subject themselves to FBI surveillance if they wanted to learn a bit about demolitions, recreational pharmaceuticals, or lock-picking from their local library. They could simply by the Anarchist Cookbook (with cash, naturally) and periodically indulge their curiosity.
The problem with the Anarchist Cookbook is that it cribs from expert sources, but the author is not an expert--and therefore, may of the recipes are unsafe, incomplete, and insufficiently adapted to the home environment.
the ages old, stupid "keyboard not present press F1 to continue"(WHEN YOU HAVE PLUGGED IN A $#@!ING KEYBOARD, when will you people understand it's not even remotely funny) Please explain how one "plugs in" a bluetooth keyboard.
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Yes. The specific extension is known as ARB_texture_non_power_of_two. This was supported by the Radeon and the GeForce cards, but not by the Rage128. This last chipset is used by my iBook. The TNT2 was not used in any Macintosh.
By the way, Quartz Extreme can be turned off by using 8 bit colour.
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Expose is somewhat slower if you don't have a Quartz Extreme Card. Classic apps tend to slow it down even further. On my faster mac, Quartz Extreme eliminates the annoying milliseconds of latency.
It's rather useful, I think, when switching between mail, a web browser, and a few finder windows. It's less useful when one is trying to use multiple xterms, for say, writing a fink package. (one for constructing patches, one for writing the.info file, and one for monitoring compilations...)
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If an operating system supports two different methods of organizing the desktop, then some inexperienced programmer will find some method of supporting only one.
"Yeah, our App tends to crash Expose. Use Virtual Desktops instead."
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try disabling the CPU cache in your BIOS to see what I mean.
It's how I play "Pirates Gold" on my PowerMac. Good way of slowing down the 68040 emulator. Of course, 68040 emulator performance is a special case-- it did lead Apple to eschew the somewhat respectable, but cache poor PPC 603 for the PPC603+.
Shutting off the L3 cache normally results in a 10 percent penalty; the L2+L3 cache, a 33% penalty. But I do think that this exaggerates the effect of potentially bloated code. It's not as if netscape fits in a 256 K cache.
Halfway down the article, the reporter starts comparing percentages, as if that's supposed to be of any use.
Suppose, some company designed an operating system with one exploit. Suppose that this single exploit was determined to be "critical". Sucunia would have us believe that this means that due to incompetence, this OS tops the chart with a 100% "critical" rating, even though the aggregate number of bugs is less than 2% of it's competitors, and the aggregate number of critical bugs, less than 9 %.
OS........ Total Remote System Critical Windows XP 46 22.08 21.16 13.8 MacOSX.... 36 21.96 11.52 11.88 RH........ 50 33.00 12.5 6.000 SUSE...... 48 27.84 17.76 12.96
Windows has 21 System exploits, MacOSX has 12. The OSs seem to have about the same vulnerability to "Remote" exploits, assuming, of course, that each release starts out with a clean slate, and that say, WindowsXP is invulnerable to a Windows NT exploit...
Cracked Screen? Of course. Busted Hard Drive: check. Broken motherboard: probably. Cracked Case: That's the least of your worries. I think the battery will survive, but if not, there's caustic/acidic materials to deal with.
Europa's a dud? Where did you get that idea? Sure, a number of astronomers have hypothesized that Europa's ocean is acidic, but confirmation of this hypothesis will rest on the observations of a as yet undesigned mission. Besides, low pH is not an absolute barrier to life, as evidenced by the variety of extremophile bacteria here on earth.
As for the "Easy Bake Oven Mix" theory, what you Nomeites don't seem to realize is that most terrestrial style life prefers a slightly warmer climate. Nasa elides over this small matter, though, as mentioning the word "life' seems to be a good way of attracting favourable media attention and its attendant appropriations.
Apple, Microsoft and Thompson each claim that their codecs are more efficient than the old standby, 128 kbs MP3. Thompson proposes 64 kbs MP3Pro; Microsoft, 96 kbs WMA.
Apple, realizing that disk space is cheap, that bandwidth should be cheap, and that "128" is so entrenched in the minds of the consumer, has wisely decided not to offer smaller downloads. Perhaps 128 kbs AAC is equivalent 160 kbs MP3. Perhaps not. It's all dependent on the ears of the listener, the audio hardware, the quality of the original recording, and the subtlety of the original piece.
It has long been observed that much popular music has been "compressed" in the studio, as cynical producers believe that any attempt to utilize the entire dynamic range of CDDA will simply result in tinny sounding music, when reproduced on cheap hardware. As a result, such music is amenable to further compression with low rate lossy codecs.
But some other labels, recognizing that their customers have access to high end systems, release recordings lauded for dyanmic range and subtlety. These tracks are less resilient to lossy compression techniques.
Keith Jarrett's "The Melody at Night With You", a selection of solo piano pieces, is a rather subtle piece, known for, inter alia, the sustained piano notes. It sounds rather undistinguished on cheap computer speakers. When compressed to, say 192 kbs AAC, many more of the notes are distorted. It is therefore stored losslessly on my hard disk. Other CDs in my collection are less subtle, and don't require that much space.
Ideally, a consumer would match individual codecs to his ears, his equipment, and his choice of music. But this is a time consuming process-- it's much easier to pick a (high) bit rate, rip at 15-20x and be done with it, returning later to rerip when one notices that the elided subtleties were sonically and artistically important.
As for the quality of downloadable tracks, it's not enough to buy the CD, and encode using various consumer level codecs. One must purchase the tracks from the online site, and compare, preferably using a blind test, as the various music stores might encode using 24 bit masters, professional level codecs, artist participation and other resources not available to the average consumer.
If one reencodes a DVD using Apple's quicktime, the resulting output is quite poor, at least in comparison to other codecs designed around the DVD rip scene. But the Quicktime trailers that Apple distributes are exquisite, indicating, in a rather broad sense, that when Apple encodes a piece of media, its results can be superior to those of its customers.
Sonny Bono is the singer (sonny & cher turned congressman who gave us the copyright extensions. Bono is the U2 singer and guitarist. Lately, he's been lobbying various governments to forgive 3rd world debt.
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English has survived over a thousand years with hardly any sort of educational system to enforce its rules upon the masses.
Yes. And then, for a further thousand years, this English, or proto-English, really, developed into a modern language, complete with an alphabet. And gradually, more and more of the population became literate, as more and more families sent their kids off to funny little institutions called "schools", where "teachers" taught their "students" how to "read". And once they could read, these persons could learn "problem solving skills" (though, in the olden days, they called it logic) and arithmetic (basic math) and natural philosophy (science).
If you want an actual secure, usable operating system, wait for Windows XP Service Pack Two...
Vaporware isn't usable. Perhaps I should look for a leaked copy of SP2 on my favorite p2p system?
Windows/PCs have 100,000s of different devices, all from 3rd party manufacturers. Each device must have it's own device driver running in kernel space, and defects in the device drivers can crash the system. Many of the drivers are rapidly changing and not well-tested. This is the biggest cause of Windows OS crashes.
It seems to me that "must have it's own device driver running in kernel space" is an engineering problem that must have an engineering solution. Perhaps a microkernel?
Probably because iTunes uses Smart Playlists. "vFolder" is pretty uninspiring. Is it a "fifth generation" folder? Is it shaped like a 'V'? Will it be used in litigation? Is it associated with a verb, or action? Is it an assistant to a real Folder? Will it bring Victory? Does it does it refer to the designer's first experience of love, rolling around in a meadow, surrounded by violets?
Eventually, some script kiddie will come along and extrapolate from this paper. Containing the resulting outbreak, while not completely impossible will be most difficult
Perhaps the hackery needs to be a little more elaborate.
Buy the book. With cash.
It's like the government knowing what you are checking out of the library. It makes you think again about trying to get a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook, you know, even if you feel that you have the right to read it...
The point of the anarchist cookbook was that it collated material from a number of "dangerous books." No longer would Americans subject themselves to FBI surveillance if they wanted to learn a bit about demolitions, recreational pharmaceuticals, or lock-picking from their local library. They could simply by the Anarchist Cookbook (with cash, naturally) and periodically indulge their curiosity.
The problem with the Anarchist Cookbook is that it cribs from expert sources, but the author is not an expert--and therefore, may of the recipes are unsafe, incomplete, and insufficiently adapted to the home environment.
Really?
Nigeria's GDP: 110.8 billion
41.2% agriculture, 15.7% industry, 43.1% services
source
South Africa's GDP: 456.7 billion
source
the ages old, stupid "keyboard not present press F1 to continue"(WHEN YOU HAVE PLUGGED IN A $#@!ING KEYBOARD, when will you people understand it's not even remotely funny)
Please explain how one "plugs in" a bluetooth keyboard.
Yes. The specific extension is known as ARB_texture_non_power_of_two. This was supported by the Radeon and the GeForce cards, but not by the Rage128. This last chipset is used by my iBook. The TNT2 was not used in any Macintosh.
By the way, Quartz Extreme can be turned off by using 8 bit colour.
Expose is somewhat slower if you don't have a Quartz Extreme Card. Classic apps tend to slow it down even further. On my faster mac, Quartz Extreme eliminates the annoying milliseconds of latency.
.info file, and one for monitoring compilations...)
It's rather useful, I think, when switching between mail, a web browser, and a few finder windows. It's less useful when one is trying to use multiple xterms, for say, writing a fink package. (one for constructing patches, one for writing the
If an operating system supports two different methods of organizing the desktop, then some inexperienced programmer will find some method of supporting only one.
"Yeah, our App tends to crash Expose. Use Virtual Desktops instead."
Apple believes that Expose is a better solution.
try disabling the CPU cache in your BIOS to see what I mean.
It's how I play "Pirates Gold" on my PowerMac. Good way of slowing down the 68040 emulator. Of course, 68040 emulator performance is a special case-- it did lead Apple to eschew the somewhat respectable, but cache poor PPC 603 for the PPC603+.
Shutting off the L3 cache normally results in a 10 percent penalty; the L2+L3 cache, a 33% penalty. But I do think that this exaggerates the effect of potentially bloated code. It's not as if netscape fits in a 256 K cache.
Getting more memory is often cheaper than springing for a new cpu.
Think about it, is there anything fundamental that Mozilla can do that Netscape 3 couldn't?
I can see that this argument is going to hinge on a redefinition of "fundamental." Nevertheless, Netscape 3 is closed source, and doesn't support CSS.
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Unfortunately, the last two practices have been criticized all too often by its ombudsman.
Suppose, some company designed an operating system with one exploit. Suppose that this single exploit was determined to be "critical". Sucunia would have us believe that this means that due to incompetence, this OS tops the chart with a 100% "critical" rating, even though the aggregate number of bugs is less than 2% of it's competitors, and the aggregate number of critical bugs, less than 9 %.Windows has 21 System exploits, MacOSX has 12. The OSs seem to have about the same vulnerability to "Remote" exploits, assuming, of course, that each release starts out with a clean slate, and that say, WindowsXP is invulnerable to a Windows NT exploit...
Cracked Screen? Of course.
Busted Hard Drive: check.
Broken motherboard: probably.
Cracked Case: That's the least of your worries.
I think the battery will survive, but if not, there's caustic/acidic materials to deal with.
Europa's a dud? Where did you get that idea? Sure, a number of astronomers have hypothesized that Europa's ocean is acidic, but confirmation of this hypothesis will rest on the observations of a as yet undesigned mission. Besides, low pH is not an absolute barrier to life, as evidenced by the variety of extremophile bacteria here on earth.
As for the "Easy Bake Oven Mix" theory, what you Nomeites don't seem to realize is that most terrestrial style life prefers a slightly warmer climate. Nasa elides over this small matter, though, as mentioning the word "life' seems to be a good way of attracting favourable media attention and its attendant appropriations.
Apple, Microsoft and Thompson each claim that their codecs are more efficient than the old standby, 128 kbs MP3. Thompson proposes 64 kbs MP3Pro; Microsoft, 96 kbs WMA.
Apple, realizing that disk space is cheap, that bandwidth should be cheap, and that "128" is so entrenched in the minds of the consumer, has wisely decided not to offer smaller downloads. Perhaps 128 kbs AAC is equivalent 160 kbs MP3. Perhaps not. It's all dependent on the ears of the listener, the audio hardware, the quality of the original recording, and the subtlety of the original piece.
It has long been observed that much popular music has been "compressed" in the studio, as cynical producers believe that any attempt to utilize the entire dynamic range of CDDA will simply result in tinny sounding music, when reproduced on cheap hardware. As a result, such music is amenable to further compression with low rate lossy codecs.
But some other labels, recognizing that their customers have access to high end systems, release recordings lauded for dyanmic range and subtlety. These tracks are less resilient to lossy compression techniques.
Keith Jarrett's "The Melody at Night With You", a selection of solo piano pieces, is a rather subtle piece, known for, inter alia, the sustained piano notes. It sounds rather undistinguished on cheap computer speakers. When compressed to, say 192 kbs AAC, many more of the notes are distorted. It is therefore stored losslessly on my hard disk. Other CDs in my collection are less subtle, and don't require that much space.
Ideally, a consumer would match individual codecs to his ears, his equipment, and his choice of music. But this is a time consuming process-- it's much easier to pick a (high) bit rate, rip at 15-20x and be done with it, returning later to rerip when one notices that the elided subtleties were sonically and artistically important.
As for the quality of downloadable tracks, it's not enough to buy the CD, and encode using various consumer level codecs. One must purchase the tracks from the online site, and compare, preferably using a blind test, as the various music stores might encode using 24 bit masters, professional level codecs, artist participation and other resources not available to the average consumer.
If one reencodes a DVD using Apple's quicktime, the resulting output is quite poor, at least in comparison to other codecs designed around the DVD rip scene. But the Quicktime trailers that Apple distributes are exquisite, indicating, in a rather broad sense, that when Apple encodes a piece of media, its results can be superior to those of its customers.
Sonny Bono is the singer (sonny & cher turned congressman who gave us the copyright extensions.
Bono is the U2 singer and guitarist. Lately, he's been lobbying various governments to forgive 3rd world debt.
yeah, it's 333. Old press releases make my eyes bleed.
The "K6-2/233" is only capable of 932 theoretical MFlops.
AMD claimed that the 233 MHz K6 was capable of 1.33 Gigaflop peak, back on May 28, 1998, largely on the strength of its 3dnow unit.
The Pentium II/400, bereft of a floating point simd unit, was only capable of 400 MFlops.
However, Apple claimed that the 500 MHz G4 was capable of 3.7 GFlops peak, 1 GFlop sustained.