After a few seconds, it mysteriously redirects to http://www.saltlake2002.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=%2Fx%2 Ff%2Fframe.htm%3Fu%3D%252F, which doesn't render.
My guess is that their validation and testing process was limited to MSIE. We must remember, though, that the site is intended to promote the reliability of MS Windows 2000.
Anybody want to bet on how long it will take until 1)The media notices that the site has died under the load, and 2) the site is hacked?
Hours recompiling? You must have very slow machine. But seriously...
The biggest problem with modules is that (by design) the binaries aren't necessarily compatible from kernel to kernel. They may not even be source compatible, as Linus and friends like to change broken architectures from time to time.
Debugging kernel loaded down with proprietary binary modules is time consuming, and often counter productive-- if kernels were binary compatible, this might further encourage the writing of non-gpled binary modules, and cause compatibility problems galore.
Hacking the kernel can seem like a daunting task, but nothing focuses the imagination like broken hardware.
Two cases in point: (the first one isn't a linux story). Someone gave me a joystick for a macintosh. I already possessed a flight simulator for the machine, but much to my chagrin, the joystick didn't have the right drivers. So, I spent the next few weeks writing a device driver (modifying Apple produced code, mostly.)
Second: I owned a DVD drive with broken firmware-- the capacity wasn't reported correctly, and so oms would stop in the middle of the movie. With the (very) extensive help of "Andrew Ebling" (of kernelhacking.org, I was able to solve my problems.
Moral of the story: it helps to have good developer documentation, and example code (provided, for the most part, by the kernel source itself) It also helps to have a reason to code.
It's £109 for colour, £36.50 for black and white, per year. The fine for unlicensed use is £1000. I'm not sure if this is per TV, as well. More information on this quaint British custom may be found at http://www.tv-l.co.uk.
Technically, it's the "X Window System", although, if ignorami insisted on calling it "X Windows" from the beginning, this may be just a minor quibble X.org claims that the protocol was released publicly in 1986, one year after MS Windows 1.0.
A brief, naive search of the uspto database indicates that microsoft filed for trademark status on August 28, 1991 (Trademark S/N 74198891)
I think the Mac dongle also takes power for the monitor, giving you one monitor cable instead of two.
Why, that's a brilliant idea! It would allow people to haul around 19" CRTs, and run them off the iBook's battery, reducing the battery life to less than an hour.
The dongle I have simply provides a standard vga port.
With all the emphasis on the "Digital Hub", I'm suprised that the Mac doesn't have spdif in/out. It would be nice to be able to record to/from non-computer audio formats. And full support of DTS/Dolby Digital/etc would be nice.
USB 2.0 is (theoretically) slightly faster than the first revison of firewire/IEEE-1394. That's assumming, of course, that you don't have USB 1.0 devices connected.
Theoretically, DVDs are sold with the understanding that compatibility is only assured if the player displays the appropriate logos-- specifically the region code symbol (a world map with a number stamped on it), and the DVD-Video logo.
DVD-ROM drives, of course display the DVD-Rom logo--the player application provides the DVD-Video logo.
All of these logos are protected by trademark laws--if a manufacturer wants to stamp their product with this logo, they must pay fees, royalties, and sign over their first born.
Thus, DVD's are incompatible with your linux machine. Look! does your debian system documentation use those logos? Of course not.
No, I have not overdosed on 'shrooms. It has, in fact, been a long time since I "touched the face of god." In fact, Sega (IIRC) tried to use the trademark laws in a similar manner to preempt third party games.
1. System would not boot game unless special loader code was presesnt.
2. Loader code would (as a side effect) display Sega logo on screen.
3. Consequently, any third party game for the system would be liable for trademark infringement.
MS notepad also follows the not so commendable philosophy of limiting file sizes to 64KB. (I suppose that this might be useful in encouraging code readability-- as long source code files might be harder to maintain, but this restraint seems analogous to bondage and domination languages (Pascal, etc).)
As for the unix "philosophy"-- well, it's been dead for some time. IMHO, Perl is much preferable to awk, sed, etc... However, who am I to criticize your (obviously well thought out) decision to use traditional posix/unix tools in a MS Windows environment.
They're also forgetting that with a computer monitor, if you remove all of your desktops, what's left? A checkerboard pattern of black and white pixels?
Not all compression is lossy-- yes, but AC3 uses Discrete Cosine transforms to discard "unimportant data." The nForce, PS2, and XBox all output AC3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel audio. This is convenient (one cable), and it certainly does remove a source of potential electronic noise, but it does distort the audio. Whether this is detectable depends in large part on the quality of one's speakers.
SPDIF only has so much bandwidth. I'm not an audio techie, so I don't know if spdif supports external clocks, remote controls, or any nifty non-audio datastreams.
DVD-Audio offers support for up to six independent PCM channels, with a maximum data rate of 9.6 Mbs, far exceeding SPDIF's limited bandwitdth.
The media lawyers probably want to encrypt stuff, as well. SPDIF may not allow that...
The review notes that Dolby Digital implies that the signal is compressed at some point, resulting in a theoretical loss of sound quality. (If you can hear the difference between the HD and standard Audigy output, you might well notice artifacts in the AC3 output.) The single wire solution might well be based on IEEE-1394, but I'm guessing that most receivers don't support this.
Step 1:
Get Sen Ernest Hollings (D-SC), to propose requiring OS's to use DMA.
Step 2:
Patent this concept.
Step 3:
Given enough cash/campaign contributions/graft, the OS design suggested in Step 1 will be developed.
Step 4: Microsoft, having patented this OS design, eliminates the competition, and rakes in cash.
I think templates are actually the right solution-- but of course, GTK-- is forced to wrap around C. At various stages of it's development, it seemed as if the GTK-- writers were a little too weeded to the STL. Sorting and searching menubars is of limited practical value...
Because Objective C is not strongly typed, template objects aren't needed. On the other hand, the algorithms that the STL provides are also missing.
I really find myself missing the ability to overload operators, though. Overloading Objects is really useful for scientific computing. Writing a RK4 solver for systems of differential equations without operator overloading is more than a little messy.
I suppose that "private:" is an obvious extrapolation of "case:" as well. Objective C++ doesn't extend the language as much as C++.
One of the big problems with writing GUIs in C++ is that the type system gets in the way. The kludges neccessary to support a GUI system on C++ are infamous. Most systems resort to macros. GTK-- uses templates. QT uses a preprocessor and language extensions.
On some cards, the SPDIF ins resample at 48 kHz. CDDA is 44100kHz. The quality of this resampling varies from card to card. Of course, any variations might well be masked/overwhelmed by the MP3 encoding process/
For you information, one of the benefits of "Premium" is that you can download the daily issue as a pdf. Good for reading on the commute, or on the commode, perhaps?
Salon writes "or if you prefer paying in smaller, spread-out amounts -- we hope this new option will fill the bill."
six dollars a month equals 72 dollars a year. Why anybody would prefer to pay twice as much "in smaller, spread out ammounts" is beyond me.
I wonder if they'll experiment with micropayments for individual stories.
Yeah, premium content is good (and IMHO, worth it), but certain tactics of Salon-- holding political content for ransom, and adopting more and more obnoxious ad tactics in hopes that annoyed readers will pay for an ad-free version--while perhaps economically justified, aren't exactly "friendly".
Salon and Slashdot are very different sites. If Slashdot had no comment system, I would not visit this site. On the other hand, I enjoy Salon-- and never use "Table Talk".
If Slashdot went to a subscription system, it would probably drive off not only its "reader base", but also its "writer base."
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After a few seconds, it mysteriously redirects to http://www.saltlake2002.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=%2Fx%2 Ff%2Fframe.htm%3Fu%3D%252F, which doesn't render.
My guess is that their validation and testing process was limited to MSIE. We must remember, though, that the site is intended to promote the reliability of MS Windows 2000.
Anybody want to bet on how long it will take until 1)The media notices that the site has died under the load, and 2) the site is hacked?
"Eddie the Eagle wins gold!"
Hours recompiling? You must have very slow machine. But seriously...
The biggest problem with modules is that (by design) the binaries aren't necessarily compatible from kernel to kernel. They may not even be source compatible, as Linus and friends like to change broken architectures from time to time.
Debugging kernel loaded down with proprietary binary modules is time consuming, and often counter productive-- if kernels were binary compatible, this might further encourage the writing of non-gpled binary modules, and cause compatibility problems galore.
Hacking the kernel can seem like a daunting task, but nothing focuses the imagination like broken hardware.
Two cases in point: (the first one isn't a linux story). Someone gave me a joystick for a macintosh. I already possessed a flight simulator for the machine, but much to my chagrin, the joystick didn't have the right drivers. So, I spent the next few weeks writing a device driver (modifying Apple produced code, mostly.)
Second: I owned a DVD drive with broken firmware-- the capacity wasn't reported correctly, and so oms would stop in the middle of the movie. With the (very) extensive help of "Andrew Ebling" (of kernelhacking.org, I was able to solve my problems.
Moral of the story: it helps to have good developer documentation, and example code (provided, for the most part, by the kernel source itself) It also helps to have a reason to code.
It's £109 for colour, £36.50 for black and white, per year. The fine for unlicensed use is £1000. I'm not sure if this is per TV, as well. More information on this quaint British custom may be found at http://www.tv-l.co.uk.
Technically, it's the "X Window System", although, if ignorami insisted on calling it "X Windows" from the beginning, this may be just a minor quibble X.org claims that the protocol was released publicly in 1986, one year after MS Windows 1.0.
A brief, naive search of the uspto database indicates that microsoft filed for trademark status on August 28, 1991 (Trademark S/N 74198891)
I think the Mac dongle also takes power for the monitor, giving you one monitor cable instead of two.
Why, that's a brilliant idea! It would allow people to haul around 19" CRTs, and run them off the iBook's battery, reducing the battery life to less than an hour.
The dongle I have simply provides a standard vga port.
With all the emphasis on the "Digital Hub", I'm suprised that the Mac doesn't have spdif in/out. It would be nice to be able to record to/from non-computer audio formats. And full support of DTS/Dolby Digital/etc would be nice.
Ick. USB 2.0 claims 480 Mb/s. Firewire/IEE1394/iLink claims 400 Mb/s (with promised upgrades to 800 Mbs and beyond...)
I can just imagine semi cluless consumers trying to figure out the difference between to two protocols. It'll be just like the Beta vs VHS format war.
USB 2.0 is (theoretically) slightly faster than the first revison of firewire/IEEE-1394. That's assumming, of course, that you don't have USB 1.0 devices connected.
Theoretically, DVDs are sold with the understanding that compatibility is only assured if the player displays the appropriate logos-- specifically the region code symbol (a world map with a number stamped on it), and the DVD-Video logo.
DVD-ROM drives, of course display the DVD-Rom logo--the player application provides the DVD-Video logo.
All of these logos are protected by trademark laws--if a manufacturer wants to stamp their product with this logo, they must pay fees, royalties, and sign over their first born.
Thus, DVD's are incompatible with your linux machine. Look! does your debian system documentation use those logos? Of course not.
No, I have not overdosed on 'shrooms. It has, in fact, been a long time since I "touched the face of god." In fact, Sega (IIRC) tried to use the trademark laws in a similar manner to preempt third party games.
1. System would not boot game unless special loader code was presesnt.
2. Loader code would (as a side effect) display Sega logo on screen.
3. Consequently, any third party game for the system would be liable for trademark infringement.
MS notepad also follows the not so commendable philosophy of limiting file sizes to 64KB. (I suppose that this might be useful in encouraging code readability-- as long source code files might be harder to maintain, but this restraint seems analogous to bondage and domination languages (Pascal, etc).)
As for the unix "philosophy"-- well, it's been dead for some time. IMHO, Perl is much preferable to awk, sed, etc... However, who am I to criticize your (obviously well thought out) decision to use traditional posix/unix tools in a MS Windows environment.
They're also forgetting that with a computer monitor, if you remove all of your desktops, what's left?
A checkerboard pattern of black and white pixels?
Not all compression is lossy-- yes, but AC3 uses Discrete Cosine transforms to discard "unimportant data." The nForce, PS2, and XBox all output AC3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel audio. This is convenient (one cable), and it certainly does remove a source of potential electronic noise, but it does distort the audio. Whether this is detectable depends in large part on the quality of one's speakers.
SPDIF only has so much bandwidth. I'm not an audio techie, so I don't know if spdif supports external clocks, remote controls, or any nifty non-audio datastreams.
DVD-Audio offers support for up to six independent PCM channels, with a maximum data rate of 9.6 Mbs, far exceeding SPDIF's limited bandwitdth.
The media lawyers probably want to encrypt stuff, as well. SPDIF may not allow that...
The review notes that Dolby Digital implies that the signal is compressed at some point, resulting in a theoretical loss of sound quality. (If you can hear the difference between the HD and standard Audigy output, you might well notice artifacts in the AC3 output.) The single wire solution might well be based on IEEE-1394, but I'm guessing that most receivers don't support this.
I seem to remember that slashdot fronted many releases from the 2.1 series...
The Washington Post panned this movie. One of their critics (Kempley) said "Save your time, save your money, save your soul. Stay at home." Now, I have a dilemma. Should I trust Kempley or Katz?
Step 1:
Get Sen Ernest Hollings (D-SC), to propose requiring OS's to use DMA.
Step 2:
Patent this concept.
Step 3:
Given enough cash/campaign contributions/graft, the OS design suggested in Step 1 will be developed.
Step 4: Microsoft, having patented this OS design, eliminates the competition, and rakes in cash.
I think templates are actually the right solution-- but of course, GTK-- is forced to wrap around C. At various stages of it's development, it seemed as if the GTK-- writers were a little too weeded to the STL. Sorting and searching menubars is of limited practical value...
Because Objective C is not strongly typed, template objects aren't needed. On the other hand, the algorithms that the STL provides are also missing.
I really find myself missing the ability to overload operators, though. Overloading Objects is really useful for scientific computing. Writing a RK4 solver for systems of differential equations without operator overloading is more than a little messy.
I suppose that "private:" is an obvious extrapolation of "case:" as well. Objective C++ doesn't extend the language as much as C++.
One of the big problems with writing GUIs in C++ is that the type system gets in the way. The kludges neccessary to support a GUI system on C++ are infamous. Most systems resort to macros. GTK-- uses templates. QT uses a preprocessor and language extensions.
I suppose that if 140% annual interest, compounded monthly, makes financial sense to you, go for it!
On some cards, the SPDIF ins resample at 48 kHz. CDDA is 44100kHz. The quality of this resampling varies from card to card. Of course, any variations might well be masked/overwhelmed by the MP3 encoding process/
For you information, one of the benefits of "Premium" is that you can download the daily issue as a pdf. Good for reading on the commute, or on the commode, perhaps?
Salon writes "or if you prefer paying in smaller, spread-out amounts -- we hope this new option will fill the bill."
six dollars a month equals 72 dollars a year. Why anybody would prefer to pay twice as much "in smaller, spread out ammounts" is beyond me.
I wonder if they'll experiment with micropayments for individual stories.
Yeah, premium content is good (and IMHO, worth it), but certain tactics of Salon-- holding political content for ransom, and adopting more and more obnoxious ad tactics in hopes that annoyed readers will pay for an ad-free version--while perhaps economically justified, aren't exactly "friendly".
Salon and Slashdot are very different sites. If Slashdot had no comment system, I would not visit this site. On the other hand, I enjoy Salon-- and never use "Table Talk".
If Slashdot went to a subscription system, it would probably drive off not only its "reader base", but also its "writer base."