My ISP is not sufficiently reliable to use their mail servers. This is why I run my own. They have a lousy uptime and are vulnerable to the email worm of the week.
I also cannot switch providers because my provider has a local broadband monopoly.
I am neither ignorant or a spammer. I simply would like to have a server that is predictible.
Disclaimer: I work for Alias|Wavefront but my opinions are my own. I am not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.
The non-commercial version of Maya ( referred to as Maya Personal Learning Edition ) is a full version of Maya Complete with the following exceptions.
- Uses a different file format from the commercial version. - All rendered output has a watermark on it. - There is no 3d-party plugin support.
Due to lack of plugin support, tools like Liquid will not work. The Maya Personal Learning Edition is basically intended to be used to learn Maya and not intended to be used for any real work.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but what does the FSF have to do with the Free Standards Group. It seem that most of the people from FSG are current or former industry people.
How dare RedHat or SuSE or IBM try to tell Linus what to do!
Just a word of advice when designing this...Be careful how you copy Maya's dependency graph stuff. While it is very cool, Alias|Wavefront, in general and Kevin Picott, specifically, holds several patents that describe the dependency graph's implementation.
That being said, I think that Maya is one of the most elegently designed pieces of software that I have had the pleasure of working with. It would be a good place to start for ideas.
Do the current laws that allow us to copy audio tapes and record TV shows expressly prohibit digital reporductions or mention optical media? When did we lose the right to copy CD's or DVD's?
I agree with this and would like to make a second point.
I work for Alias|Wavefront. We make Maya. It has a fantastically efficient and powerful UI that is based around gestures. To see people working with Maya, who use it professionally, is quite amazing. I also have to say that it has a very steep learning curve and is way beyond what you can expect from Joe User.
For gestures to work efficiently, there can be no visual feedback while executing the command. If there is visible feedback, your interface is basically reduced to multidirectional menues. Maya can be used this way but it is no better than using the standard pulldown menues.
I love gestures in Galeon/Opera/Mozilla, but I think that they should be left to the power user and that they should be used sparingly in applications.
the difference between KDE and GNOME and RedHat's thing, then you are "geek" enough to compile source or install the RPM's that someone will create 24 hours after the RH 8.0 isos hit the mirrors.
I'm not saying that I wouldn't quit if my views diverged greatly from my employer; I'm just saying that it doesn't really matter to most of us.
I won't use this desktop for even a day, but I'll still use redhat for the same reason that I've used redhat for years...It is the best supported distro out there with respect to commercial apps and Free binary packages. Redhat has never been the best desktop OS since GNU/Linux had a modern desktop.
Besides, this is probably a smart move from the corporate desktop point of view.
Do you own your own computer? If so, what exactly is in it and what OS is it running. Please justify each answer.
Basically, if person doesn't own a computer or only owns a Dell that they just bought use to surf the web, then they aren't really "into" computers. To be a good programmer it has to be a hobby too.
Actually, this is more true than you think. The title proposed title for Space Balls II (as stated by Yogurt in Space Balls) was "Space Balls II: The Search for More Money".
I have a rather large collection of lectures, tutorials, and conferences on DVD. It is rather useful to watch a tutorial in a 1/4 screen window while you thumb throught the example source code. Laying on my couch I would just fall asleep.
It is not illegal to buy paint. It is not illegal to mail paint to your friend. It is not illegal to paint your own stuff.
It is illegal to paint the side of somebody elses building without their consent. It is illegal to put paint in a car-wash's water tanks and ruin peoples cars.
If you write code to do a bad thing and you put it on someones computer without their consent than you are a vandal. If your code can spread itself around to 100,000 computers then you are a vandal on 100,000 computers.
If you made paint and told somebody that it was paint, you can't be held responsible if they paint the wrong thing.
If you mean the 128k bps MP3s that were ripped by a Xing encoder, I agree. Poorly encoded, low bitrate anything will be worse than the original.
There will be a lot of arguments in this thread about what people can and can't hear. I won't contribute to that. I'll just say this.
I listen to only MP3's. They were all ripped from CD's (that I bought) using the latest version of LAME with the --r3mix option. The option makes a variable bitrate MP3 that averages about 200k bps.
I think that I have exceptional hearing and I did a test listening to a CD track vs the same thing run through LAME. I couldn't tell the difference.
Bottom line: You can't notice everything in a CD quality audio stream. If you want smaller files, I'm sure that you can find a method of MP3 encoding that sounds good to you. That is really all that matters anyway.
Anybody with a *NIX computer can go get any cd's produced by UMG and use cdparanoia to copy them. Then we can take them to the store. UMG has ordered the store to take them back. It would be pretty funny to take back 100 CD's and say that they don't work right in your stereo. You still walk away with the unprotected copy.
I know it's wrong, but so is trying to stomp on fair-use and price-fixing.
Tapes and MP3's suffer the similar quality loss. I would take a first-generation tape on descent equipment over a 128kbs MP3 done on a common Windows encoder. It's not different. People will pay a for a perfect copy. People will make a free copy of anything.
Nobody copied of the radio (accept little kids that don't buy music). People copied tapes from friends.
>Second, at the time the tape-recorders had >almost the quality of LPs they DID hurt artists >pretty badly. The use of tape-recorders dropped >when CDs came because people wanted the better >quality they (atleast think) it offered.
Please provide some data. I doubt that this is true.
Drop that word processor and walk away slowly.
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In the end, you want to be using LaTeX. It is efficient and beautiful, especially for large and complex projects. It can magically turn itself into pdf and HTML too. It won't crash. Most importantly, it will still exist and work in 25 years, and so it is great for long-term storage. (How long will MSWord files be able to be viewed?)
If you comming from the world of word processing, it can be a bit of a leap though. I recommend that you start with LyX, a frontend to LaTeX that is pseudo-WYSIWYG and has a GUI. It will export LaTeX, so once you get comfortable with the concepts of typesetting (vs. word processing) you can drop the gui (or not, depending on taste).
The latency is still going to be high and it will remain constant for the forseable future. Round trip time is about 250ms for statellite communications and until we can increase c or make our atmosphere smaller, there isn't a technolgical solution that will make the latency problem go away.
Because MS Word cannot produce an equivalent result. It do not do a very good job (if any) at kerning. Its hyphenation is laughable. It cannot touch LaTeX in mathematical expressions. It does not support any intelligent placing of figures. In Word, you have to go back through and force page brakes to make everything look ok. And most importantly, Word will sometimes automagically destroy formatting in sufficiently large and/or complex documents.
If you haven't used LaTeX or LyX, I suggest you look into it. Expecially for large documents.
I would really love to buy a radeon for my Linux workstation, but nVidia provides superior dirvers. I would like to philosophically take a stand and reject nVidia for their refusal to release specs but I need complete and efficient drivers. The radeon currently cannot compete with nVidia on linux (or windows) even though the radeon is likely better hardware.
"...if you need to produce a document, spreadsheet or presentation, you're still likely to be able to do it faster and better by sticking with the Microsoft devil you know."
In the same spirit as touch typing vs. two fingering it, do the windows solutions really produce better output than TeX and your favorite external utils to make figures (gnuplot).
People go on and on about how great Word or it's Linux clones are. They are admitidly as easy to get started on as two fingering it, but I don't think they can touch LaTeX for quality and speed, once you get the hang of it.
The problem with the California power companys was not competition. The law with allowed them to compete also barred them from making long-term energy purchasing contracts. They were forced to bid for energy day to day on the open market. That open marked saw its prices grow exponentially. Consumer rates, at the same time, were fixed.
This was not a problem of disolving a monopoly. It was a problem with poorly thought out, legislated pseudo-competition.
Natural monopolies almost guarantee poor quality of service. The only businesses that I deal with that are not pleasent to deal with are the public utilities, local phone company, and the government.
The government may be a monopoly that is unavoidable but the utilities and phone company can certainly use some competition to increase quality. My cell phone provider is a joy by comparison because the first one sucked so I dropped it and got another. Now they compete for my business.
I was a bit dissipointed with the SciFi version when they cast Jessica and Paul to look about the same age, but I understand their wanting to put attractive young actors into the main roles...
Are they going to cast the twins as two hot 20 year olds that are supposed to be 8? That would suck. Maybe with Duncan and Alia they can reach their sex quota, but will they be able to resist temtation and actually cast young children into two of the main rolls?
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My ISP is not sufficiently reliable to use their mail servers. This is why I run my own. They have a lousy uptime and are vulnerable to the email worm of the week.
I also cannot switch providers because my provider has a local broadband monopoly.
I am neither ignorant or a spammer. I simply would like to have a server that is predictible.
Disclaimer: I work for Alias|Wavefront but my opinions are my own. I am not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.
The non-commercial version of Maya ( referred to as Maya Personal Learning Edition ) is a full version of Maya Complete with the following exceptions.
- Uses a different file format from the commercial version.
- All rendered output has a watermark on it.
- There is no 3d-party plugin support.
Due to lack of plugin support, tools like Liquid will not work. The Maya Personal Learning Edition is basically intended to be used to learn Maya and not intended to be used for any real work.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but what does the FSF have to do with the Free Standards Group. It seem that most of the people from FSG are current or former industry people.
How dare RedHat or SuSE or IBM try to tell Linus what to do!
Disclaimer: I work for Alias|Wavefront.
Just a word of advice when designing this...Be careful how you copy Maya's dependency graph stuff. While it is very cool, Alias|Wavefront, in general and Kevin Picott, specifically, holds several patents that describe the dependency graph's implementation.
That being said, I think that Maya is one of the most elegently designed pieces of software that I have had the pleasure of working with. It would be a good place to start for ideas.
Do the current laws that allow us to copy audio tapes and record TV shows expressly prohibit digital reporductions or mention optical media? When did we lose the right to copy CD's or DVD's?
I agree with this and would like to make a second point.
I work for Alias|Wavefront. We make Maya. It has a fantastically efficient and powerful UI that is based around gestures. To see people working with Maya, who use it professionally, is quite amazing. I also have to say that it has a very steep learning curve and is way beyond what you can expect from Joe User.
For gestures to work efficiently, there can be no visual feedback while executing the command. If there is visible feedback, your interface is basically reduced to multidirectional menues. Maya can be used this way but it is no better than using the standard pulldown menues.
I love gestures in Galeon/Opera/Mozilla, but I think that they should be left to the power user and that they should be used sparingly in applications.
the difference between KDE and GNOME and RedHat's thing, then you are "geek" enough to compile source or install the RPM's that someone will create 24 hours after the RH 8.0 isos hit the mirrors.
I'm not saying that I wouldn't quit if my views diverged greatly from my employer; I'm just saying that it doesn't really matter to most of us.
I won't use this desktop for even a day, but I'll still use redhat for the same reason that I've used redhat for years...It is the best supported distro out there with respect to commercial apps and Free binary packages. Redhat has never been the best desktop OS since GNU/Linux had a modern desktop.
Besides, this is probably a smart move from the corporate desktop point of view.
first those big, loud, funny looking, metal broomsticks and now this.
Do you own your own computer? If so, what exactly is in it and what OS is it running. Please justify each answer.
Basically, if person doesn't own a computer or only owns a Dell that they just bought use to surf the web, then they aren't really "into" computers. To be a good programmer it has to be a hobby too.
I just told my wife about this and explained that I needed some recognition for the 6 machine LAN that I admin in our home. She laughed at me.
If my wife reacts like that, I'd hate to see your boss.
Your math is wrong. It should be:
1,555,200 * 0.00175Kw * 0.10 (dollar per KwH power cost) = $272.16 electricity cost/year (Crusoe)
1,555,200 * 0.00575Kw * 0.10 (dollar per KwH power cost) = $894.24 electricity cost/year (Intel)
This savings is absolute dollars is much less significant when you divide by 10.
Actually, this is more true than you think. The title proposed title for Space Balls II (as stated by Yogurt in Space Balls) was "Space Balls II: The Search for More Money".
I have a rather large collection of lectures, tutorials, and conferences on DVD. It is rather useful to watch a tutorial in a 1/4 screen window while you thumb throught the example source code. Laying on my couch I would just fall asleep.
And as such, it should be illegal.
It is not illegal to buy paint.
It is not illegal to mail paint to your friend.
It is not illegal to paint your own stuff.
It is illegal to paint the side of somebody elses building without their consent.
It is illegal to put paint in a car-wash's water tanks and ruin peoples cars.
If you write code to do a bad thing and you put it on someones computer without their consent than you are a vandal. If your code can spread itself around to 100,000 computers then you are a vandal on 100,000 computers.
If you made paint and told somebody that it was paint, you can't be held responsible if they paint the wrong thing.
If you mean the 128k bps MP3s that were ripped by a Xing encoder, I agree. Poorly encoded, low bitrate anything will be worse than the original.
There will be a lot of arguments in this thread about what people can and can't hear. I won't contribute to that. I'll just say this.
I listen to only MP3's. They were all ripped from CD's (that I bought) using the latest version of LAME with the --r3mix option. The option makes a variable bitrate MP3 that averages about 200k bps.
I think that I have exceptional hearing and I did a test listening to a CD track vs the same thing run through LAME. I couldn't tell the difference.
Bottom line: You can't notice everything in a CD quality audio stream. If you want smaller files, I'm sure that you can find a method of MP3 encoding that sounds good to you. That is really all that matters anyway.
Anybody with a *NIX computer can go get any cd's produced by UMG and use cdparanoia to copy them. Then we can take them to the store. UMG has ordered the store to take them back. It would be pretty funny to take back 100 CD's and say that they don't work right in your stereo. You still walk away with the unprotected copy.
I know it's wrong, but so is trying to stomp on fair-use and price-fixing.
You don't seem to get it.
Tapes and MP3's suffer the similar quality loss. I would take a first-generation tape on descent equipment over a 128kbs MP3 done on a common Windows encoder. It's not different. People will pay a for a perfect copy. People will make a free copy of anything.
Nobody copied of the radio (accept little kids that don't buy music). People copied tapes from friends.
>Second, at the time the tape-recorders had >almost the quality of LPs they DID hurt artists >pretty badly. The use of tape-recorders dropped >when CDs came because people wanted the better >quality they (atleast think) it offered.
Please provide some data. I doubt that this is true.
In the end, you want to be using LaTeX. It is efficient and beautiful, especially for large and complex projects. It can magically turn itself into pdf and HTML too. It won't crash. Most importantly, it will still exist and work in 25 years, and so it is great for long-term storage. (How long will MSWord files be able to be viewed?)
If you comming from the world of word processing, it can be a bit of a leap though. I recommend that you start with LyX, a frontend to LaTeX that is pseudo-WYSIWYG and has a GUI. It will export LaTeX, so once you get comfortable with the concepts of typesetting (vs. word processing) you can drop the gui (or not, depending on taste).
The latency is still going to be high and it will remain constant for the forseable future. Round trip time is about 250ms for statellite communications and until we can increase c or make our atmosphere smaller, there isn't a technolgical solution that will make the latency problem go away.
Because MS Word cannot produce an equivalent result. It do not do a very good job (if any) at kerning. Its hyphenation is laughable. It cannot touch LaTeX in mathematical expressions. It does not support any intelligent placing of figures. In Word, you have to go back through and force page brakes to make everything look ok. And most importantly, Word will sometimes automagically destroy formatting in sufficiently large and/or complex documents.
If you haven't used LaTeX or LyX, I suggest you look into it. Expecially for large documents.
Would be great!!!
I would really love to buy a radeon for my Linux workstation, but nVidia provides superior dirvers. I would like to philosophically take a stand and reject nVidia for their refusal to release specs but I need complete and efficient drivers. The radeon currently cannot compete with nVidia on linux (or windows) even though the radeon is likely better hardware.
"...if you need to produce a document, spreadsheet or presentation, you're still likely to be able to do it faster and better by sticking with the Microsoft devil you know."
In the same spirit as touch typing vs. two fingering it, do the windows solutions really produce better output than TeX and your favorite external utils to make figures (gnuplot).
People go on and on about how great Word or it's Linux clones are. They are admitidly as easy to get started on as two fingering it, but I don't think they can touch LaTeX for quality and speed, once you get the hang of it.
The problem with the California power companys was not competition. The law with allowed them to compete also barred them from making long-term energy purchasing contracts. They were forced to bid for energy day to day on the open market. That open marked saw its prices grow exponentially. Consumer rates, at the same time, were fixed.
This was not a problem of disolving a monopoly. It was a problem with poorly thought out, legislated pseudo-competition.
Natural monopolies almost guarantee poor quality of service. The only businesses that I deal with that are not pleasent to deal with are the public utilities, local phone company, and the government.
The government may be a monopoly that is unavoidable but the utilities and phone company can certainly use some competition to increase quality. My cell phone provider is a joy by comparison because the first one sucked so I dropped it and got another. Now they compete for my business.
That is capitalism.
In the case of Redhat at least, if you use up2date to update your system, each rpm is checked for a GPG signature.
I was a bit dissipointed with the SciFi version when they cast Jessica and Paul to look about the same age, but I understand their wanting to put attractive young actors into the main roles...
Are they going to cast the twins as two hot 20 year olds that are supposed to be 8? That would suck. Maybe with Duncan and Alia they can reach their sex quota, but will they be able to resist temtation and actually cast young children into two of the main rolls?