Mathworld is a encyclopedia of Mathematics. If you needed an algorithm of formula, Mathworld was the place to go. At one time, CRC press bought the right to the site and began to publish it as the "CRC encylopedia of Mathematics" (or a similar name). While useful, the book also cost 95$ and was large and somewhat heavy--both traits that in my mind, limited its appeal (in comparison to a freely aviailable internet site.) CRC sued to remove the site as it probably dimisnished sales of its "Encyclopedia of Mathematics."
I used to have a high opinion of Norton Utilities-- until I paid through the nose for a version (6.0 something) that didn't boot my iBook (500 Mhz) because the install disk didn't have a recent enough finder (I needed 9.1)-- and that I was unable to get it working in OSX. My problems were unrelated to the iTunes fiasco.)
Does anybody know how how to burn a bootable Norton Utilities CD (with System 9.2)? Is it posssible to do this using the Apple CD Burner program?
I believe Intel released the PII 233 and PII 266 more or less simultaneously. (A 4.9% upgrade from the 233 is sightly less then 245 MHz, by the way.) Intel's speed bumps were 33 Mhz at that time, and increased to ~50 Mhz after the move to the 100 MHz FSB. (Coincidence? I think not...)
As for the Pentium II-200, it might have been harder to distinguish it from a PentiumMMX-200. (from a marketing perspective)
Line doubled to 640x480? yuck. But given that the converter box works with both N64 and GameCube, better resolution should not neccesarily be expected...
Aren't these consoles supposed to offer HDTV outs?
The mpeg audio layer uses different transforms than the video layer. Even the mpeg decoder cards often have software audio decode (which usually isn't mpeg audio anyway, but AC-3).
I believe that some cards from Phillips claimed MP3 acceleration, and there is no reason why the Soundblaster Live chipset couldn't be programmed to do the same. (Phillips, iirc, doesn't support linux, btw)
A Modal interface is an interface in which the program has to enter a specific state for certain commands to be usable. e.g. vi has a editing mode, and a paging mode, and a deletion mode.
The original philosophy behind modeless interfaces is that the questions "how do I get out of this" and "how do I get back to the original screen" were to be avoided.
The current control panel application (in OSX) is actually very similar to the pre 7.0 control panel-- one selected a control panel to work on, and the relevant controls appeared on screen. (Post OS 7.0, the control panel was simply a folder, and opening a control panel opened up a new window)
It's my impression though, that single window design does present problems. I never much liked the panes in "Project Builder."
Herbert deserves a place in history for his Dune series (the early ones at least), but not all of his books are commendable. "The Santaroga Barrier" is a real turkey.
While timely bugfixes are to be expected, a certain level of competence should be expected from a software vender. This should have been caught before release.
The error in the installation script was, in part, due to Apple's relaxation of certain unix conventions regarding spaces in filenames--conventions that have proven useful. And while some might dismiss this as merely evidencing Apple's unfamiliarity with UNIX, shouldn't this have been caught by the Nextstep engineers?
Nonetheless, most x.0 releases are buggy.Windows 3.0 was widely regarded as half baked. OSX-10.0x was very slow. The subsequent x.1 release is usually far better.
This even extends into free software. linux-2.4.0 was buggy. gcc-3.0 was buggy. It used to be that there were no hard and fast deadlines for free software, but significant pressure to shorten long development cycles may cause corners to cut. The gcc team even has deadlines...
At least the standard installation scripts (provided by GNU tools) are reliable and trustworthy... (I hope).
The trailer originally appeared before and after "Meet Joe Black" and "The Waterboy," at selected theatres. I've heard that the Waterboy was a pretty dumb movie-- as was (for slightly different reasons), MJB.
A $99 pentium box? Why? If you already have an OSX capable machine, it costs far less to install the GNU-Darwin distribution. The hassles associated with integrating a old, slow machine into a home network are surely not worth it...
I use a similar ditribution to run GNU-Octave on my machine. It is faster and more convenient for me to run X apps on my iBook than on my old Pentium II linux box.
What's so special about this distribution?
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I use fink myself. It's sort of a clone of apt-get for OSX. I have octave, gimp, latex, and a host of other applications on my machine. What's the advantage of this "distribution"?
If you can overclock your CPU so that it's faster than what is commercially available, it may be worth it. If the CPU vendor charges a premium for its top rated CPUs far in excess of the expense of overclocking gear, it may be worth it.
IIRC, overclocking really took off with the Celeron 300A, which could be overclocked to 450 Mhz-- a substantial performance improvement when one considers that the PII-450 sold for 3 times the price of the Celeron-300A.
Any poster who claims to present benchmarks based on gcc 3.1 is either lying or incompetent. GCC 3.0.2 is the current release. GCC 3.1 is scheduled for release on 15 Apr 2002.
There's always a trade off between image quality and raw speed. Game Designers know this. Chip Designers know this, and reviewers know this. Most of the video chipset reviews I've read report on image quality.
If tweaked benchmarking takes off- we might see reviews such as the following:
nVidea Geforce 4 Extreme Titatinum Edition Plus
240 fps-- looks like crap, though. Nvidea needs to stop using 12bit textures.
ATI Radeon III 65536
210 fps-- slightly slower speed, but sharp images.
nVidea Geforce 4 (with firmware hacked to use "Pro" drivers)
200 fps-- absolutely beautiful.
Re:A waste of time. Probably OEMed by someone else
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I might point out that the Soundblaster Audigy has a firewire port. It's even gold plated.
Fair use began as a judicial doctrine extending the rights of copyright owners to derivative works. It currently exists as a judicial doctrine delineating the proper scope of copyright, despite mention in the US Code.
In Sony v. Universal,464 U.S. 417 (1984),
the court decided that time shifting using videotapes constituted "fair use", even though such a use is not necessarily educational. In Campbell v ACUFF-Rose 510 U.S. 569 (1993), the courts recognized the right to parody, even if done for commercial purposes. The court further noted that the fair use clauses mentioned in 17 US 107, "provide only general guidance about the sorts of copying that courts and Congress most commonly had found to be fair uses".
MSN Linux users: probably close to zero since MSN uses non standard interfaces that must be reverse engineered.
Qwest Linux users: probably greater than zero because up to now, Qwest used standard interfaces that a Linux user could use-- even in lieu of non-official support channels.
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My iBook (white) was released after 9.03, and apparently requires the additional extensions released with 9.1.
AFAIK, apple's Disc Burner utility only allows single session CD-Rs.
Mathworld is a encyclopedia of Mathematics. If you needed an algorithm of formula, Mathworld was the place to go. At one time, CRC press bought the right to the site and began to publish it as the "CRC encylopedia of Mathematics" (or a similar name). While useful, the book also cost 95$ and was large and somewhat heavy--both traits that in my mind, limited its appeal (in comparison to a freely aviailable internet site.) CRC sued to remove the site as it probably dimisnished sales of its "Encyclopedia of Mathematics."
I used to have a high opinion of Norton Utilities-- until I paid through the nose for a version (6.0 something) that didn't boot my iBook (500 Mhz) because the install disk didn't have a recent enough finder (I needed 9.1)-- and that I was unable to get it working in OSX. My problems were unrelated to the iTunes fiasco.)
Does anybody know how how to burn a bootable Norton Utilities CD (with System 9.2)? Is it posssible to do this using the Apple CD Burner program?
I believe Intel released the PII 233 and PII 266 more or less simultaneously. (A 4.9% upgrade from the 233 is sightly less then 245 MHz, by the way.) Intel's speed bumps were 33 Mhz at that time, and increased to ~50 Mhz after the move to the 100 MHz FSB. (Coincidence? I think not...)
As for the Pentium II-200, it might have been harder to distinguish it from a PentiumMMX-200. (from a marketing perspective)
Line doubled to 640x480? yuck. But given that the converter box works with both N64 and GameCube, better resolution should not neccesarily be expected...
Aren't these consoles supposed to offer HDTV outs?
The mpeg audio layer uses different transforms than the video layer. Even the mpeg decoder cards often have software audio decode (which usually isn't mpeg audio anyway, but AC-3).
I believe that some cards from Phillips claimed MP3 acceleration, and there is no reason why the Soundblaster Live chipset couldn't be programmed to do the same. (Phillips, iirc, doesn't support linux, btw)
A Modal interface is an interface in which the program has to enter a specific state for certain commands to be usable. e.g. vi has a editing mode, and a paging mode, and a deletion mode.
The original philosophy behind modeless interfaces is that the questions "how do I get out of this" and "how do I get back to the original screen" were to be avoided.
The current control panel application (in OSX) is actually very similar to the pre 7.0 control panel-- one selected a control panel to work on, and the relevant controls appeared on screen. (Post OS 7.0, the control panel was simply a folder, and opening a control panel opened up a new window)
It's my impression though, that single window design does present problems. I never much liked the panes in "Project Builder."
His "Web of the Chozen" is a deeply prophetic masterpiece.
Herbert deserves a place in history for his Dune series (the early ones at least), but not all of his books are commendable. "The Santaroga Barrier" is a real turkey.
I wonder if it's posssible to port Octave to the Palm. Perhaps even a gnuplot palm terminal.. Perhaps it's already been done.
While timely bugfixes are to be expected, a certain level of competence should be expected from a software vender. This should have been caught before release.
The error in the installation script was, in part, due to Apple's relaxation of certain unix conventions regarding spaces in filenames--conventions that have proven useful. And while some might dismiss this as merely evidencing Apple's unfamiliarity with UNIX, shouldn't this have been caught by the Nextstep engineers?
Nonetheless, most x.0 releases are buggy.Windows 3.0 was widely regarded as half baked. OSX-10.0x was very slow. The subsequent x.1 release is usually far better.
This even extends into free software. linux-2.4.0 was buggy. gcc-3.0 was buggy. It used to be that there were no hard and fast deadlines for free software, but significant pressure to shorten long development cycles may cause corners to cut. The gcc team even has deadlines...
At least the standard installation scripts (provided by GNU tools) are reliable and trustworthy... (I hope).
Why are you interested in the dimensions of Chinese currency? The Japanese 100 Yen coin has a diameter of 22.6 mm.
Oops, wrong choice of words. Since I use Redhat, I'm not that familier with the differences (if any) between dpkg/apt and fink.
The trailer originally appeared before and after "Meet Joe Black" and "The Waterboy," at selected theatres. I've heard that the Waterboy was a pretty dumb movie-- as was (for slightly different reasons), MJB.
A $99 pentium box? Why? If you already have an OSX capable machine, it costs far less to install the GNU-Darwin distribution. The hassles associated with integrating a old, slow machine into a home network are surely not worth it...
I use a similar ditribution to run GNU-Octave on my machine. It is faster and more convenient for me to run X apps on my iBook than on my old Pentium II linux box.
I use fink myself. It's sort of a clone of apt-get for OSX. I have octave, gimp, latex, and a host of other applications on my machine. What's the advantage of this "distribution"?
If you can overclock your CPU so that it's faster than what is commercially available, it may be worth it. If the CPU vendor charges a premium for its top rated CPUs far in excess of the expense of overclocking gear, it may be worth it.
IIRC, overclocking really took off with the Celeron 300A, which could be overclocked to 450 Mhz-- a substantial performance improvement when one considers that the PII-450 sold for 3 times the price of the Celeron-300A.
Any poster who claims to present benchmarks based on gcc 3.1 is either lying or incompetent. GCC 3.0.2 is the current release. GCC 3.1 is scheduled for release on 15 Apr 2002.
How difficult is it to write a replacement thesaurus/spell checker? Does Microsoft lock customers into Encarta's definitions/spellings?
Of course, back in the dark ages, grammar checkers, thesauri, and even spell checkers were third party add ons.
No, capitalization usually refers to which party is dominant, and which is submissive. So change that tag line to "mffGoat bdsm heavy nc zoo"
There's always a trade off between image quality and raw speed. Game Designers know this. Chip Designers know this, and reviewers know this. Most of the video chipset reviews I've read report on image quality.
If tweaked benchmarking takes off- we might see reviews such as the following:
nVidea Geforce 4 Extreme Titatinum Edition Plus
240 fps-- looks like crap, though. Nvidea needs to stop using 12bit textures.
ATI Radeon III 65536
210 fps-- slightly slower speed, but sharp images.
nVidea Geforce 4 (with firmware hacked to use "Pro" drivers)
200 fps-- absolutely beautiful.
I might point out that the Soundblaster Audigy has a firewire port. It's even gold plated.
Fair use began as a judicial doctrine extending the rights of copyright owners to derivative works. It currently exists as a judicial doctrine delineating the proper scope of copyright, despite mention in the US Code.
In Sony v. Universal,464 U.S. 417 (1984),
the court decided that time shifting using videotapes constituted "fair use", even though such a use is not necessarily educational. In Campbell v ACUFF-Rose 510 U.S. 569 (1993), the courts recognized the right to parody, even if done for commercial purposes. The court further noted that the fair use clauses mentioned in 17 US 107, "provide only general guidance about the sorts of copying that courts and Congress most commonly had found to be fair uses".
MSN Linux users: probably close to zero since MSN uses non standard interfaces that must be reverse engineered.
Qwest Linux users: probably greater than zero because up to now, Qwest used standard interfaces that a Linux user could use-- even in lieu of non-official support channels.
I'm not privy to any exact numbers.