Transducers aren't really everything. Of course, in the case of ear-bud headphones they are, but usually you've got at least mixer, an amp, a power supply, and a variety of filters (including a microphone) between yourself and the sound source.
Any and all of these WILL add noise to the signal, and they will all almost always cause slight nonlinear filtering effects. So buying more expensive versions of these things are justified, as the more expensive versions can take care of these problems. Cables, however, are just plain linear resistors; they don't really do much to the sound at all - at least not at first.
As far as the half a mile thing, like I said, the effect is supposed to be very, very slight. Apparently there's a latency issue with low frequencies that can cause some phase shift. This effect is supposedly discernable at no less than half a mile.
Fortunately for sound, phase is not really important - or rather, the only important thing is that everything is in phase. There are now digital devices that can realign the phase after a very long signal transfer.
Note that this effect (phase shifting) will have the following results:
1) Everything will sound a little quieter than it would have otherwise
2) Instruments with very different ranges (such as Piccolo and Tuba) will not blend as well.
Note that phasing is a common side-effect from nearly every sound system component.
Phase effects are also canceled by reflection - that is, when they hit a wall and bounce off, or something like that. Also, if you've got enough sound sources, the amount of phasing due to this effect should be miniscule compared to the natural amount. Don't bother with worrying about this if you are using it to listen to rock music. You won't know the difference.
Now I'm STILL not sure I buy the fact that cables produce nonlinear phase-shifting, but it does seem possible. Like most people, however, I run a max of about 100' of cable to my speakers, so I don't EVER have to worry about those effects (and I don't get to check and see if the cable people are lying about that, too).
And any true audiophile who has done a blind test (switching the cables on their system using EXACTLY the same speakers/reciever/amps) will tell you that cables aren't important and that the rest of the audiophiles have been fed a line.
Any such audiophile who does research on the physics of cables will come up with the knowledge that the very, very, slight benefits of higher end cables can only be achieved at lengths of greater than about HALF A MILE.
You can argue this 'till you're blue in the face, of course, but I suggest that instead you use the scientific method: hook your cheap cables and your good cables up to a switch so that all the other equipment is the same. See if it makes any difference whatsoever.
I have a friend with a LOT of monster cable who became a bit depressed after this test, because he owned a LOT of Monster cable. He could have spent the money on even more expensive speakers to actually improve his sound.
Qualifier: there is a difference between shielded and unshielded, twisted pair, and straight. However, there is very little difference between Radio Shack 16 gauge shielded, twisted pair and Monster 16 gauge shielded, twisted pair.
My qualifications: I've been a sound technician for 9 years now, and a musician for 17 years. I can play four instruments, have a vocal range of three octaves. I have worked VERY hard to have a critical ear over this time period, and I think I do.
I've been working on getting stuff like this online.
So far, I've gotten, Matthew Russo's zplet working with a CGI front-end.
Next on the list is jetty, though this will probably take a bit (lot) more work, as its not very polished at the moment.
Anyway...I put MY favorite Inform games (those that work with the z-machine interpreter) online at this location.
I just added the competition's zcode section as well - it's here.
Have fun!
One note: the reason that the applet asks for read/write permission is so that you can save. Its a security risk for you, perhaps, but why live your life in fear?
The latest All-in-Wonder Value edition has the thing they've been missing: beer. Yes, it actually has a small microbrewery/breakout box, so that your computer can be all that you need; it even does it by remote control.
The full package includes an IV breakout box from which cola is fed interveinously (and blood removed), effectively eliminating any and all need to leave the computer for any reason whatsoever.
The next edition is expected to be fully sentient, allowing those eccentric geeks who feel the need for friendship (for some strange reason). This new edition will be dubbed "All-in-Wonder: Heroin Edition," crediting the fact that heroin users want for nothing but the drug, just as All-in-Wonder users should want nothing else.
So there I am...up at 3AM trying to work on my homework, which involves doing research.
Naturally, I'm looking at IEEE XPlore, which lets me see nearly the entire archive of IEEE papers in PDF format over the internet.
So I start the download...and it goes at 5kb/sec. Its like I'm on a modem. Why? Because a few people in my dorm are wasting my time uploading music and software illegally.
Later, I go out to my class and realize that I forgot to put my homework on my school account. So I start up an sftp session and start downloading it. But it goes at BYTES per second. Why? Because people in my dorm are wasting my time sharing music and software.
Why don't you have some curtesy for your fellow students and stop wasting their time when you waste yours? The internet at school is not for your personal enjoyment; its so that you can be a better student.
I left the dorms and got a house, and now I'm using cable modem in a neighborhood almost without students (which means without file-sharing). Even though the cable company has less total bandwidth than the school, latency is down and connection speeds are up compared to living in the dorm.
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IIS only runs on PCs. My guess is that this "wet paper bag" architecture you speak of usually runs Apache.
Most hackers I've met here are script kiddies who couldn't hack a [server] if the people in the area bothered installing security patches (i.e. Linux).
Yeah...just the other day, I was using sawfish, with Gnome, and was quite upset that one of my favorite features - minimize all/unminimize all - was missing. I guess it was one of those features no one wanted badly enough to do the monotonous coding.
But I did. So I added it. Now Gnome is "full-featured" in my eyes. Its not lots of little things that make an application seem full featured - its all the features you use. If there are enough developers, we can get all of our apps to be full featured eventually - not because its fun, but because we want the features.
While we're on the subject of fun and coding, the rest of the world considers coding tedious. I consider CISC assembly tedious, but I like RISC. There are lots of kinds of developers, all of which have different ideas of what makes fun in coding. So the work can all get done eventually.
Better steamboats eliminated river-boat experts. Computers (almost) eliminated typewriters. Automatic bowling lanes eliminated those guys who would stand in the back and set up the pins.
Computers eliminated...computers (people who did numerical calculations all day).
Perhaps you should rethink your idea? Plenty of things have been replaced by new technology.
Computers could (doubt it myself) become robust enough to work without sysadmins. Then they'd be called "computer repair technicians" and there'd be less of them.
Text adventures naturally teach typing - I think thats pretty much how I got fast at it.
And then there was always oregon trail - quite a fun game, I think. That taught a lot about...the Oregon Trail - the wildlife, what had to happen, etc.
I don't think that as many people would know how a rail-gun works without FPS (although I'm not sure most people know what they actually look like).
Plus, you're wrong. The internet was about a new economic system. An economic system is not an invention. Being brilliant in that is being a brillaint businessman. I can't think of any internet businesses that are successful because of an amazing product that they sell. They're doing well because of their business model.
Conversely, I can't think of any internet business that went under in spite of their amazing products; they went under because of their stupid business model.
The only two technological innovations I can think of (and these pale in comparison to Kary Mullis' idea) are Yahoo's idea of HAVING a search engine, and Google's idea of having a heuristic-based categorization of searches. And these two ideas have prospered...
Perhaps you could come up with a counter example. Let me ask you this for whatever example you hold: could the product that failed have a profound, obvious and life-changing effect on at least 1,000 people? 'Cause if not, it'll succeed based upon its marketing, not its usefulness. The example would just not be a good enough mousetrap.
I guess you could as long as you don't need to write things to the memory system after the first time...
You think hard drives wear out fast? Flash wears out faster. The numbers I've heard are between 1000 and 1,000,000,000 writes (depending on the make/model/brand). Of course, one possible solution is to use mostly flash, as well as some of the more long-lasting (in the presence of many, many writes) memory systems.
As far as no moving parts...water coolers have moving parts and fans have moving parts...so unless you live in a very, very cold place, you're going to need moving parts. But I suppose you could do without a floppy, and it seems technically feasable to have a CD-ROM drive that has a laser which is difracted to reflect the entire surface all at once, and have millions of photoreceptors to read the entire disk image at once. Has anybody made one of those?
Riiigggghhhht...because before that company, Kary Mullis was an intellectual midget who never did anything. And he wouldn't have done anything without getting paid for it.
Lets pretend that scientists like him couldn't work in companies. Recognizing his sheer genius, people would buy him lab equipment if he promised to share his future wealth. Why would they do this even though he had no company? Because he's a freakin' genius.
Then he'd get rich. And those who invested in him would get rich. There wouldn't be any worry about HOW to sell it; he built the best mousetrap, and the world would have beaten a path to his door.
All without the benefit of that company.
Try thinking the other way: if Kary Mullis didn't exist, that company wouldn't have lasted very long.
Saying that those who take the risk cause inventions is like saying that those who jump off of buildings cause gravity. Necessity and passion are the mother and father of invention; business is merely an unfortunate side-effect- like the splat at the end of the jump.
What you ned to thing about is all of the applikashuns that aren't beng developed bekause standarts aren't being met, or rather, you need to think about all of the applications that aren't being developed because there are no standards. In addition, you should consider the magnitude of the request. Its not really that big; most (similar) CMS systems could interoperate with only a new serialization frontend (i.e. a different export format).
I'm all for an incredibly loose standard, myself. One that is almost as flexible as a database management system (but with an addition of some form of identification-verification-ssl library).
Of course, if Apache does it, and it works...I don't see why people will want to use Exchange.
Modern RAM ramps up at such a high voltage that it causes side effects that could be interpreted as signal when combined with other RAMs in phase.
Basically, rather than multiplexing, RAM has just gotten faster.
And as far as being analog devices, and not digital, that's not a very good accessment. While the signal that they produce is analog, they look more like sinc functions in the analog domain than sinusoids. Those kind of functions are good for DIGITAL systems. They are defined in such a way that part of the wave form is considered unusable, and that nothing should interfere with that part of the signal.
Compare that to modem signals, which look a good deal more like sinusoids - nice, slow, smooth curves, by comparison.
I suppose they could be made to phase shift, and do all that sort of thing, but computers as we know it would have to be redesigned to interpret signals much, much differently. We'd have to have wavelet processors, or something like that, and everything would have to go slower.
A good question is whether or not such slowdown would be worth it. Considering how well analog computers have done, perhaps not.
They charge for access to their suppository. $99, actually.
Sounds like a good reason not to use them.
I looked all over their website. The fact that this is true is only mentioned IN PASSING in a section NOT related to their suppository (which they call Click-N-Run). Its also mentioned here. Also, from what I've read, their support sucks, and they don't have any available downloads. They have an explaination here. While legal (I think?), these seem like dirty tricks; they're more expensive than any other distribution with these additions. Its like they're trying to become the next Microsoft, but with the upgrade system that Microsoft wish it used.
I was hoping to switch recommended brands, but I guess I'll keep telling all the newbies to start with Mandrake until they could be weaned to more solid food.
No, no...its sheepshifting
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Gentoo runs WineX (since the source is available), and there are people working on it.
Gentoo has a different development model than most distros. There is a lot more user contribution in improving it than most; users often write code upgrades. Also, the user forums are INCREDIBLY active. So they are most likely looking to add users who already have some knowledge of Linux, but want to augment it.
This is one compelling reason: you run Linux? Want to run Wine, but its not working for you? We've got it running - even WineX. Oh, and here's UT as well.
Seems like a good way to get the flock to join a new fold.
I myself switched to Gentoo because I was tired of downloading source packages under Mandrake and going through the "find and compile the library that is needed" game whenever I downloaded a program that was too new or too small to be in the distro (its considerably easier to do this type of thing with Gentoo, plus they have more packages), and adding packages that weren't part of the install was sending me into RPM oblivion.
My sister has that disorder. It causes small (SMALL) patches of white due to the body's immune system killing off pigment cells.
The condition can be arrested, and the skin will return to its usual color most of the time, given enough tanning. Of course, if you're nuts, you could just bleach the rest of your skin to match.
I don't think that even occured to my sister at the time.
Umm...no. I bought Corel Linux from CompUSA to try it out. It came with Wordperfect 8, and a huge manual.
I read through the manual a bit, and was slightly impressed. Then I realized that other products for Windows and Linux do the job better, so I didn't use it.
Abiword, Kword, and OpenOffice suit my needs, and I like it better. I also like the fact that I can compile it and upgrade it; I'm not stuck with version 8. I therefore have had no motivation to buy WordPerfect.
So here's the real thing: 1) Make a product for Linux in an area of the market that isn't already dominated by free software. 2) Make sure people actually use such a product.
Do you think Nero would have any success making CD-RW software in Linux, when CD-Record is already as capable?
On the other hand, adaptec would do quite well if they made quasi-binary UDF drivers for Linux, because nothing else (that works) exists.
There are several products that require a custom kernel, and this could certainly benefit all of them.
The one I'm thinking of right now is Win4lin, the cheapest, fastest Windows VM for Linux right now; it needs a kernel with its own patches, and they distribute patches for Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and Vanilla kernels. My distro (Gentoo) makes a kernel which is known for its speed, but which I'm not using right now because of this (I can't even patch the Vanilla kernel to that level because it the Win4lin patch conflicts with Gentoo's patches).
Did you notice, however, that every epic star trek movie produced in the TNG series (including the show finale) is about time? Its almost as though its written for aging baby boomers filled with regrets.
[anomoly of the year] causes [time event of the year] which forces Captian Picard to save everyone by risking his own life, and possibly the lives of his crew.
I've done research about this. I've seen all of the movies about lightning and read all of the comic books. They lead to this conclusion: 1) The main effect of lightning is that you black out. When you wake up, something will be different.
2) Usually the different thing is your brain. You may have gained ESP, or perhaps telekinesis.
3) Sometimes the result of a lightning strike is speed. Since lightning moves so fast, it may transfer this speed into you. It is also possible that conditions #2 and #3 both happen, meaning that you think super-fast.
4) Occasionally, the electricity of the lightning will be transferred to you. If this happens, you have most likely become a being of pure energy, capable of jumping into electrical sockets, flying, etc. You'll also have super speed, since as we know, electricity is fast.
5) If its a rare, freak accident, you may not gain any super powers at all. However, this means that something important happened to someone ELSE while you were passed out. Perhaps, for example, your arch-nemesis kidnapped your fiance. This is most likely to happen if you already HAVE super powers, or at least really cool talents.
6) All plasma state electrical discharges have the same capabilities of imbuing super powers as lightening does. Be warned, however, that when you do experiments in a LAB involving lighting, you're likely to get a side effect of criminal insanity due to the electrical strike, especially if you already know a super-hero or are working late into the night. If your an ASSISTANT of someone else who is doing the work, and you're just there because you're trying to make money for a good reason (for instance, to buy your mother a nice birthday present), you're almost guaranteed to get super powers if there is an accident.
If downloaders are freeloaders, doesn't that make Mandrake a freeloader, too? After all, they do have LOTS of open source software. They even built upon another distro themselves. Plus, its not really ethical to force people to lie (click here if you're a member) is it? Especially when they're obligated by the GPL to offer the software for free, and they've got lots of nonprofit orgs providing them with free mirrors.
I have a solution that would allow Mandrake to avoid what you would consider their current hipocracy.
They can post a link which says: "We got most of our software for free and then tweaked it, mostly with the help of a large group of volunteers. However, we packaged it, and while we can't legally require you to pay for it, you should anyway. Click now here to see the list of mirrors."
I give out my code for free. Other coders give theirs out for free. That's how the system works. Mandrake is just using the system to make money. Abusing the system would mean charging money for things you're not allowed to charge for, that is, not giving out your code for free.
The little guys of open-source aren't in it for the money. They do it because they like it. I speak as one who uses one of the little distros which made it into the top 10 less than a month after it went beta, and which still doesn't make money (and doesn't plan to). And I have contributed a couple of improvements of my own to my disto.
You think the lag time to third world countries is bad? Try third world PLANETS.
Whenever I play quake against guys from Mars, its always the same: they just stand there, and I frag 'em. They must have a latency of several minutes, at least! Other planets are even worse. I once waited all night just to download a 1k faq on Plutonian mining operations, and I can't even COUNT how many connections I've lost completely with servers on Jupiter.
Who could hack those anyway? Of course, it would take forever. Plus, as we all know (having seen Independence Day), servers in space run MacOS (otherwise how would the guy have easily uploaded a virus with his iMAC), which is a bit difficult to hack anyway.
I don't think they have anything to worry about. Except Uranus. I hear they're using unpatched IIS servers there.
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Transducers aren't really everything. Of course, in the case of ear-bud headphones they are, but usually you've got at least mixer, an amp, a power supply, and a variety of filters (including a microphone) between yourself and the sound source.
Any and all of these WILL add noise to the signal, and they will all almost always cause slight nonlinear filtering effects. So buying more expensive versions of these things are justified, as the more expensive versions can take care of these problems. Cables, however, are just plain linear resistors; they don't really do much to the sound at all - at least not at first.
As far as the half a mile thing, like I said, the effect is supposed to be very, very slight. Apparently there's a latency issue with low frequencies that can cause some phase shift. This effect is supposedly discernable at no less than half a mile.
Fortunately for sound, phase is not really important - or rather, the only important thing is that everything is in phase. There are now digital devices that can realign the phase after a very long signal transfer.
Note that this effect (phase shifting) will have the following results:
1) Everything will sound a little quieter than it would have otherwise
2) Instruments with very different ranges (such as Piccolo and Tuba) will not blend as well.
Note that phasing is a common side-effect from nearly every sound system component.
Phase effects are also canceled by reflection - that is, when they hit a wall and bounce off, or something like that. Also, if you've got enough sound sources, the amount of phasing due to this effect should be miniscule compared to the natural amount. Don't bother with worrying about this if you are using it to listen to rock music. You won't know the difference.
Now I'm STILL not sure I buy the fact that cables produce nonlinear phase-shifting, but it does seem possible. Like most people, however, I run a max of about 100' of cable to my speakers, so I don't EVER have to worry about those effects (and I don't get to check and see if the cable people are lying about that, too).
And any true audiophile who has done a blind test (switching the cables on their system using EXACTLY the same speakers/reciever/amps) will tell you that cables aren't important and that the rest of the audiophiles have been fed a line.
Any such audiophile who does research on the physics of cables will come up with the knowledge that the very, very, slight benefits of higher end cables can only be achieved at lengths of greater than about HALF A MILE.
You can argue this 'till you're blue in the face, of course, but I suggest that instead you use the scientific method: hook your cheap cables and your good cables up to a switch so that all the other equipment is the same. See if it makes any difference whatsoever.
I have a friend with a LOT of monster cable who became a bit depressed after this test, because he owned a LOT of Monster cable. He could have spent the money on even more expensive speakers to actually improve his sound.
Qualifier: there is a difference between shielded and unshielded, twisted pair, and straight. However, there is very little difference between Radio Shack 16 gauge shielded, twisted pair and Monster 16 gauge shielded, twisted pair.
My qualifications: I've been a sound technician for 9 years now, and a musician for 17 years. I can play four instruments, have a vocal range of three octaves. I have worked VERY hard to have a critical ear over this time period, and I think I do.
Here it is.
I've been working on getting stuff like this online.
So far, I've gotten, Matthew Russo's zplet working with a CGI front-end.
Next on the list is jetty, though this will probably take a bit (lot) more work, as its not very polished at the moment.
Anyway...I put MY favorite Inform games (those that work with the z-machine interpreter) online at this location.
I just added the competition's zcode section as well - it's
here.
Have fun!
One note: the reason that the applet asks for read/write permission is so that you can save. Its a security risk for you, perhaps, but why live your life in fear?
Games. And TV.
The latest All-in-Wonder Value edition has the thing they've been missing: beer. Yes, it actually has a small microbrewery/breakout box, so that your computer can be all that you need; it even does it by remote control.
The full package includes an IV breakout box from which cola is fed interveinously (and blood removed), effectively eliminating any and all need to leave the computer for any reason whatsoever.
The next edition is expected to be fully sentient, allowing those eccentric geeks who feel the need for friendship (for some strange reason). This new edition will be dubbed "All-in-Wonder: Heroin Edition," crediting the fact that heroin users want for nothing but the drug, just as All-in-Wonder users should want nothing else.
So there I am...up at 3AM trying to work on my homework, which involves doing research.
Naturally, I'm looking at IEEE XPlore, which lets me see nearly the entire archive of IEEE papers in PDF format over the internet.
So I start the download...and it goes at 5kb/sec. Its like I'm on a modem. Why? Because a few people in my dorm are wasting my time uploading music and software illegally.
Later, I go out to my class and realize that I forgot to put my homework on my school account. So I start up an sftp session and start downloading it. But it goes at BYTES per second. Why? Because people in my dorm are wasting my time sharing music and software.
Why don't you have some curtesy for your fellow students and stop wasting their time when you waste yours? The internet at school is not for your personal enjoyment; its so that you can be a better student.
I left the dorms and got a house, and now I'm using cable modem in a neighborhood almost without students (which means without file-sharing). Even though the cable company has less total bandwidth than the school, latency is down and connection speeds are up compared to living in the dorm.
IIS only runs on PCs. My guess is that this "wet paper bag" architecture you speak of usually runs Apache.
Most hackers I've met here are script kiddies who couldn't hack a [server] if the people in the area bothered installing security patches (i.e. Linux).
Yeah...just the other day, I was using sawfish, with Gnome, and was quite upset that one of my favorite features - minimize all/unminimize all - was missing. I guess it was one of those features no one wanted badly enough to do the monotonous coding.
But I did. So I added it. Now Gnome is "full-featured" in my eyes. Its not lots of little things that make an application seem full featured - its all the features you use. If there are enough developers, we can get all of our apps to be full featured eventually - not because its fun, but because we want the features.
While we're on the subject of fun and coding, the rest of the world considers coding tedious. I consider CISC assembly tedious, but I like RISC. There are lots of kinds of developers, all of which have different ideas of what makes fun in coding. So the work can all get done eventually.
Better steamboats eliminated river-boat experts. Computers (almost) eliminated typewriters. Automatic bowling lanes eliminated those guys who would stand in the back and set up the pins.
Computers eliminated...computers (people who did numerical calculations all day).
Perhaps you should rethink your idea? Plenty of things have been replaced by new technology.
Computers could (doubt it myself) become robust enough to work without sysadmins. Then they'd be called "computer repair technicians" and there'd be less of them.
Text adventures naturally teach typing - I think thats pretty much how I got fast at it.
And then there was always oregon trail - quite a fun game, I think. That taught a lot about...the Oregon Trail - the wildlife, what had to happen, etc.
I don't think that as many people would know how a rail-gun works without FPS (although I'm not sure most people know what they actually look like).
not useful. Unlike a mousetrap.
Plus, you're wrong. The internet was about a new economic system. An economic system is not an invention. Being brilliant in that is being a brillaint businessman. I can't think of any internet businesses that are successful because of an amazing product that they sell. They're doing well because of their business model.
Conversely, I can't think of any internet business that went under in spite of their amazing products; they went under because of their stupid business model.
The only two technological innovations I can think of (and these pale in comparison to Kary Mullis' idea) are Yahoo's idea of HAVING a search engine, and Google's idea of having a heuristic-based categorization of searches. And these two ideas have prospered...
Perhaps you could come up with a counter example. Let me ask you this for whatever example you hold: could the product that failed have a profound, obvious and life-changing effect on at least 1,000 people? 'Cause if not, it'll succeed based upon its marketing, not its usefulness. The example would just not be a good enough mousetrap.
I guess you could as long as you don't need to write things to the memory system after the first time...
You think hard drives wear out fast? Flash wears out faster. The numbers I've heard are between 1000 and 1,000,000,000 writes (depending on the make/model/brand). Of course, one possible solution is to use mostly flash, as well as some of the more long-lasting (in the presence of many, many writes) memory systems.
I just found this one for example.
As far as no moving parts...water coolers have moving parts and fans have moving parts...so unless you live in a very, very cold place, you're going to need moving parts. But I suppose you could do without a floppy, and it seems technically feasable to have a CD-ROM drive that has a laser which is difracted to reflect the entire surface all at once, and have millions of photoreceptors to read the entire disk image at once. Has anybody made one of those?
Riiigggghhhht...because before that company, Kary Mullis was an intellectual midget who never did anything. And he wouldn't have done anything without getting paid for it.
Lets pretend that scientists like him couldn't work in companies. Recognizing his sheer genius, people would buy him lab equipment if he promised to share his future wealth. Why would they do this even though he had no company? Because he's a freakin' genius.
Then he'd get rich.
And those who invested in him would get rich.
There wouldn't be any worry about HOW to sell it; he built the best mousetrap, and the world would have beaten a path to his door.
All without the benefit of that company.
Try thinking the other way: if Kary Mullis didn't exist, that company wouldn't have lasted very long.
Saying that those who take the risk cause inventions is like saying that those who jump off of buildings cause gravity. Necessity and passion are the mother and father of invention; business is merely an unfortunate side-effect- like the splat at the end of the jump.
"That's great Lewis. Short, but pointless."
What you ned to thing about is all of the applikashuns that aren't beng developed bekause standarts aren't being met, or rather, you need to think about all of the applications that aren't being developed because there are no standards. In addition, you should consider the magnitude of the request. Its not really that big; most (similar) CMS systems could interoperate with only a new serialization frontend (i.e. a different export format).
I'm all for an incredibly loose standard, myself. One that is almost as flexible as a database management system (but with an addition of some form of identification-verification-ssl library).
Of course, if Apache does it, and it works...I don't see why people will want to use Exchange.
Yeah...quite Freudian, that slip. Post tired, and your subconscious may add a thing or to itself. Obviously I mean REpository.
Modern RAM ramps up at such a high voltage that it causes side effects that could be interpreted as signal when combined with other RAMs in phase.
Basically, rather than multiplexing, RAM has just gotten faster.
And as far as being analog devices, and not digital, that's not a very good accessment. While the signal that they produce is analog, they look more like sinc functions in the analog domain than sinusoids. Those kind of functions are good for DIGITAL systems. They are defined in such a way that part of the wave form is considered unusable, and that nothing should interfere with that part of the signal.
Compare that to modem signals, which look a good deal more like sinusoids - nice, slow, smooth curves, by comparison.
I suppose they could be made to phase shift, and do all that sort of thing, but computers as we know it would have to be redesigned to interpret signals much, much differently. We'd have to have wavelet processors, or something like that, and everything would have to go slower.
A good question is whether or not such slowdown would be worth it. Considering how well analog computers have done, perhaps not.
They charge for access to their suppository. $99, actually.
Sounds like a good reason not to use them.
I looked all over their website. The fact that this is true is only mentioned IN PASSING in a section NOT related to their suppository (which they call Click-N-Run). Its also mentioned here.
Also, from what I've read, their support sucks, and they don't have any available downloads. They have an explaination here.
While legal (I think?), these seem like dirty tricks; they're more expensive than any other distribution with these additions. Its like they're trying to become the next Microsoft, but with the upgrade system that Microsoft wish it used.
I was hoping to switch recommended brands, but I guess I'll keep telling all the newbies to start with Mandrake until they could be weaned to more solid food.
Gentoo runs WineX (since the source is available), and there are people working on it.
Gentoo has a different development model than most distros. There is a lot more user contribution in improving it than most; users often write code upgrades. Also, the user forums are INCREDIBLY active. So they are most likely looking to add users who already have some knowledge of Linux, but want to augment it.
This is one compelling reason: you run Linux? Want to run Wine, but its not working for you? We've got it running - even WineX. Oh, and here's UT as well.
Seems like a good way to get the flock to join a new fold.
I myself switched to Gentoo because I was tired of downloading source packages under Mandrake and going through the "find and compile the library that is needed" game whenever I downloaded a program that was too new or too small to be in the distro (its considerably easier to do this type of thing with Gentoo, plus they have more packages), and adding packages that weren't part of the install was sending me into RPM oblivion.
My sister has that disorder. It causes small (SMALL) patches of white due to the body's immune system killing off pigment cells.
The condition can be arrested, and the skin will return to its usual color most of the time, given enough tanning. Of course, if you're nuts, you could just bleach the rest of your skin to match.
I don't think that even occured to my sister at the time.
So you'd pay just for a frontend? Hmm...
Anyway, I think gcombust is pretty similar to Nero. At least enough for my tastes.
Umm...no. I bought Corel Linux from CompUSA to try it out. It came with Wordperfect 8, and a huge manual.
I read through the manual a bit, and was slightly impressed. Then I realized that other products for Windows and Linux do the job better, so I didn't use it.
Abiword, Kword, and OpenOffice suit my needs, and I like it better. I also like the fact that I can compile it and upgrade it; I'm not stuck with version 8. I therefore have had no motivation to buy WordPerfect.
So here's the real thing:
1) Make a product for Linux in an area of the market that isn't already dominated by free software.
2) Make sure people actually use such a product.
Do you think Nero would have any success making CD-RW software in Linux, when CD-Record is already as capable?
On the other hand, adaptec would do quite well if they made quasi-binary UDF drivers for Linux, because nothing else (that works) exists.
There are several products that require a custom kernel, and this could certainly benefit all of them.
The one I'm thinking of right now is Win4lin, the cheapest, fastest Windows VM for Linux right now; it needs a kernel with its own patches, and they distribute patches for Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and Vanilla kernels. My distro (Gentoo) makes a kernel which is known for its speed, but which I'm not using right now because of this (I can't even patch the Vanilla kernel to that level because it the Win4lin patch conflicts with Gentoo's patches).
Did you notice, however, that every epic star trek movie produced in the TNG series (including the show finale) is about time? Its almost as though its written for aging baby boomers filled with regrets.
[anomoly of the year] causes [time event of the year] which forces Captian Picard to save everyone by risking his own life, and possibly the lives of his crew.
I've done research about this. I've seen all of the movies about lightning and read all of the comic books. They lead to this conclusion:
1) The main effect of lightning is that you black out. When you wake up, something will be different.
2) Usually the different thing is your brain. You may have gained ESP, or perhaps telekinesis.
3) Sometimes the result of a lightning strike is speed. Since lightning moves so fast, it may transfer this speed into you. It is also possible that conditions #2 and #3 both happen, meaning that you think super-fast.
4) Occasionally, the electricity of the lightning will be transferred to you. If this happens, you have most likely become a being of pure energy, capable of jumping into electrical sockets, flying, etc. You'll also have super speed, since as we know, electricity is fast.
5) If its a rare, freak accident, you may not gain any super powers at all. However, this means that something important happened to someone ELSE while you were passed out. Perhaps, for example, your arch-nemesis kidnapped your fiance. This is most likely to happen if you already HAVE super powers, or at least really cool talents.
6) All plasma state electrical discharges have the same capabilities of imbuing super powers as lightening does. Be warned, however, that when you do experiments in a LAB involving lighting, you're likely to get a side effect of criminal insanity due to the electrical strike, especially if you already know a super-hero or are working late into the night. If your an ASSISTANT of someone else who is doing the work, and you're just there because you're trying to make money for a good reason (for instance, to buy your mother a nice birthday present), you're almost guaranteed to get super powers if there is an accident.
If downloaders are freeloaders, doesn't that make Mandrake a freeloader, too? After all, they do have LOTS of open source software. They even built upon another distro themselves. Plus, its not really ethical to force people to lie (click here if you're a member) is it? Especially when they're obligated by the GPL to offer the software for free, and they've got lots of nonprofit orgs providing them with free mirrors.
I have a solution that would allow Mandrake to avoid what you would consider their current hipocracy.
They can post a link which says:
"We got most of our software for free and then tweaked it, mostly with the help of a large group of volunteers. However, we packaged it, and while we can't legally require you to pay for it, you should anyway. Click now here to see the list of mirrors."
I give out my code for free. Other coders give theirs out for free. That's how the system works. Mandrake is just using the system to make money. Abusing the system would mean charging money for things you're not allowed to charge for, that is, not giving out your code for free.
The little guys of open-source aren't in it for the money. They do it because they like it. I speak as one who uses one of the little distros which made it into the top 10 less than a month after it went beta, and which still doesn't make money (and doesn't plan to). And I have contributed a couple of improvements of my own to my disto.
You think the lag time to third world countries is bad? Try third world PLANETS.
Whenever I play quake against guys from Mars, its always the same: they just stand there, and I frag 'em. They must have a latency of several minutes, at least! Other planets are even worse. I once waited all night just to download a 1k faq on Plutonian mining operations, and I can't even COUNT how many connections I've lost completely with servers on Jupiter.
Who could hack those anyway? Of course, it would take forever. Plus, as we all know (having seen Independence Day), servers in space run MacOS (otherwise how would the guy have easily uploaded a virus with his iMAC), which is a bit difficult to hack anyway.
I don't think they have anything to worry about. Except Uranus. I hear they're using unpatched IIS servers there.