Why would you have to go to Analog? My computer has SP/DIF optical digital I/O.
And even if you did have to go through analog, most sound cards now have 24 bit D/A's and A/D's. As long as it is not a total crap sound card, the analog quality is much BETTER than the 16 bit source material. Even an analog transfer would be indistinguishable from the original in a double-blind test.
Autoconf does not work. It it supposed to dynamically test the platform and figure out the appropriate way to build your app on the system. It tries to do this, but, it all comes down to the fact that it only works on the style of systems that autoconf was written for.
What do I mean? A big one I hate autoconf for is how cross compiling is broken on almost every one as many compiler tests require the ability to run the code locally. A neat trick I found is that I can cross compile to mingwin32 from linux if linux is on i386 and I have wine installed! But alas, I usually cannot cross compile to mingwin32 from mac osx because the autoconf tests are unable to run the.exe's.
Another one is how it interacts with slightly different environments like cygwin/mingw/mac osx :.exe files versus.App directories, resource files, etc.
After originally being a total autoconf convert myself (I have the books!) I decided to roll my own. #ifdefs for the platforms that matter to me, and only those - for only those will be tested anyways. And Makefiles that use the filesystem to decide what files to compile into a library or executable, so nothing needs to change until a new platform is needed.
...a recent cluster of five CJD cases in Kentucky, reported in August by neurologist Joseph Berger of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, is providing cause for concern. These five people had a dietary choice in common: they ate squirrel brains.
When I learned that the Microsoft additions were being added, and that they were going to use XML, I immediately thought 'hah! bloat! typical microsoft! This data does not require or need or benefit from using XML.'
But, I was wrong. Adding XML allows them to patent it. That is the ONLY reason why they are using XML.
University of Texas will get the contract to run Los Alamos, and will start doing real nuclear weapons tests again. Expect more dirt on Los Alamos until this transfer is completed.
What bothers me about the newer fancy kde and gnome desktops is that they do not store settings on a per-display basis. I open a terminal app when I am logged in via cygwin's XFree86 implementation, and the fonts are all wrong. So I select a nice one in the preferences. Next time I log in to the main computer directly, the preferences now are wrong.
Another problem is when you want to log in more than once into the same desktop. ie: run vnc server in the background and X11 desktop locally. Log in to vnc and watch all the kde & gnome embedded servers complain. It makes me want to just go back to fvwm or openbox... The original X Resources scheme did allow for per-display application settings. What we have now is a step backwards.
It would be different if the points that they dispute in the movie on their website were more relevant and not just trivial like 'Moore implies thisandthat but in reality it was slightly different', for instance:
The implication is that Bath invested the bin Laden family's money in Bush's failed energy company, Arbusto. He doesn't mention that Bath has said that he had invested his own money, not the bin Ladens', in Bush's company.
It is interesting to compare: The critics [davekopel.com] with the The responses [michaelmoore.com].
I, for one, am very disappointed in the critic's points. Some of their points are in direct conflict with other points. For instance, they say special permission for the flights of the Saudis was not required because the flights were after Sept. 13th:
But nonetheless, many viewers will leave the movie theater with the impression that the Saudis, thanks to special treatment from the White House, were permitted to fly away when all other planes were still grounded. This false impression is created by Moore's failure, when mentioning Sept. 13, to emphasize that the ban on flights had been eased by then.
Yet in the next section they say that special permission WAS given by the white house, albiet signed by Richard Clarke, not Bush.
Again, Moore is misleading. His film includes a brief shot of a Sept. 4, 2003, New York Times article headlined "White House Approved Departures of Saudis after Sept. 11, Ex-Aide Says." The camera pans over the article far too quickly for any ordinary viewer to spot and read the words in which Clarke states that he approved the flights.
It all sounds so child-like: "He implies that the white house gave permission, but they didn't have to! And besides, the permission that the white house gave was signed by Clarke, not Bush, so there.."
All very subjective and internally inconsistent- just like the typical view of the problems of Moore's films.
I have come to the conclusion that most people are stupid, it doesn't matter what side of the political fence that they are on.
--jeff++
The fetus is a potential soldier to be drafted into the war on terrorism. In that respect it is worth quite a lot. It will be unwanted and uneducated and will be happy to be in the army.
The thing that most people here are not understanding is that many of the 'dialers' are installed via unpatched Internet Explorer holes and do not require even a 'yes, I want to install this dialer program' request. So the casual web browser person who unknowingly got forwarded to a malicious website can get hit with it.
Do you really think that www.bbc.co.uk will have the latest IE exploit on the homepage?
A little while back www.bbc.co.uk had an image of Ariel Sharon on the front page of the site. This image was photoshopped to make it look like he had a Hitler moustache. The image was linked to a broken url.
If someone could do that, then they could have injected the latest IE exploit as well.
I, for one, would love to see a configuration file that is EASILY machine-editable. I hate it when I see hacks like in Mandrake 10 where the system startup code tries to modify the config file if the nvidia module is not loaded. It simply prefixes the associated line with '#', on every boot, every time! ######
As much as I see xml overused everywhere, having the configuration in a clean xml file would probably be best.
--jeff++
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Yes, or related: I run vncserver as well as X11 locally. Log into both running gnome on the same home directory and failures happen all over the place! kde has this problem too. Some types of program defaults should be XDISPLAY specific.
Some ISP's (like shaw.ca) have mail servers that refuse to relay a mail message that is bcc'd to more than 10 people. This breaks mail list programs nicely.
Other external ISP's like Earthlink refuse to accept email directly from some other ISP's user IP addresses.
The only solution is to buy or rent or colocate a server and have full control yourself.
I used to write C code for a processor with 32 bit char's. Now I write code for a processor with 40 bit longs and 8 bit char's! You really get to see how 'portable' C code is when you compile on such diverse architectures! Very little code works without modification.
Unfortunately this doesn't fix the problem with Virtual PC. Install works fine (textmode) but then booting crashes with a processor error immediately after uncompressing the kernel. Must be related to the 4K page update?:-(
Absolutely, and I would have been happier if the title of this article was: Web Redesigned With Foresight.
I hate it when w3c or whoever designs a standard without the foresight to even allow appropriate growth and backwards compatibility in the future without ugly hacks.
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Why would you have to go to Analog? My computer has SP/DIF optical digital I/O.
And even if you did have to go through analog, most sound cards now have 24 bit D/A's and A/D's. As long as it is not a total crap sound card, the analog quality is much BETTER than the 16 bit source material. Even an analog transfer would be indistinguishable from the original in a double-blind test.
--jeff++
Check out: http://www.spectrumsignal.com/
--jeff++
Autoconf does not work. It it supposed to dynamically test the platform and figure out the appropriate way to build your app on the system. It tries to do this, but, it all comes down to the fact that it only works on the style of systems that autoconf was written for.
.exe's.
.exe files versus .App directories, resource files, etc.
What do I mean? A big one I hate autoconf for is how cross compiling is broken on almost every one as many compiler tests require the ability to run the code locally. A neat trick I found is that I can cross compile to mingwin32 from linux if linux is on i386 and I have wine installed! But alas, I usually cannot cross compile to mingwin32 from mac osx because the autoconf tests are unable to run the
Another one is how it interacts with slightly different environments like cygwin/mingw/mac osx :
After originally being a total autoconf convert myself (I have the books!) I decided to roll my own. #ifdefs for the platforms that matter to me, and only those - for only those will be tested anyways. And Makefiles that use the filesystem to decide what files to compile into a library or executable, so nothing needs to change until a new platform is needed.
--jeff++
This article shows that:
--jeff++
--jeff++
When I learned that the Microsoft additions were being added, and that they were going to use XML, I immediately thought 'hah! bloat! typical microsoft! This data does not require or need or benefit from using XML.'
But, I was wrong. Adding XML allows them to patent it. That is the ONLY reason why they are using XML.
--jeff++
University of Texas will get the contract to run Los Alamos, and will start doing real nuclear weapons tests again. Expect more dirt on Los Alamos until this transfer is completed.
--jeff++
What bothers me about the newer fancy kde and gnome desktops is that they do not store settings on a per-display basis. I open a terminal app when I am logged in via cygwin's XFree86 implementation, and the fonts are all wrong. So I select a nice one in the preferences. Next time I log in to the main computer directly, the preferences now are wrong.
Another problem is when you want to log in more than once into the same desktop. ie: run vnc server in the background and X11 desktop locally. Log in to vnc and watch all the kde & gnome embedded servers complain. It makes me want to just go back to fvwm or openbox... The original X Resources scheme did allow for per-display application settings. What we have now is a step backwards.
--jeff++
Millions of potential inmates! This is what we need - More inmates available to do cheap labour!
--jeff++
But you GOTTA buy it! it is the MATRIX! And not only that, Larry Wachowski needs the money for his next Transformation Operation
--jeff++
And until all computers are designed without humans being involved in the design process, computers will make mistakes too.
Mistakes will always happen. The real issue is: How do you deal with the mistakes.
If you have a voting machine without a verifiable paper record, it is impossible to even check for system failure or fraud.
--jeff++
It would be different if the points that they dispute in the movie on their website were more relevant and not just trivial like 'Moore implies thisandthat but in reality it was slightly different', for instance:
It is interesting to compare: The critics [davekopel.com] with the The responses [michaelmoore.com].
I, for one, am very disappointed in the critic's points. Some of their points are in direct conflict with other points. For instance, they say special permission for the flights of the Saudis was not required because the flights were after Sept. 13th:
Yet in the next section they say that special permission WAS given by the white house, albiet signed by Richard Clarke, not Bush.
It all sounds so child-like: "He implies that the white house gave permission, but they didn't have to! And besides, the permission that the white house gave was signed by Clarke, not Bush, so there.."
All very subjective and internally inconsistent- just like the typical view of the problems of Moore's films.I have come to the conclusion that most people are stupid, it doesn't matter what side of the political fence that they are on.
--jeff++
The fetus is a potential soldier to be drafted into the war on terrorism. In that respect it is worth quite a lot. It will be unwanted and uneducated and will be happy to be in the army.
--jeff++
The thing that most people here are not understanding is that many of the 'dialers' are installed via unpatched Internet Explorer holes and do not require even a 'yes, I want to install this dialer program' request. So the casual web browser person who unknowingly got forwarded to a malicious website can get hit with it.
--jeff++
(raising hand) I DO! I DO!
C++ with QT on Mac OS X is horribly slow. I complain all the time. It is MUCH slower than the equivalent java on the same box.
Languages aren't slow or fast. Different implementations of algorithms are slow or fast.
--jeff++
A little while back www.bbc.co.uk had an image of Ariel Sharon on the front page of the site. This image was photoshopped to make it look like he had a Hitler moustache. The image was linked to a broken url.
If someone could do that, then they could have injected the latest IE exploit as well.
--jeff++
I, for one, would love to see a configuration file that is EASILY machine-editable. I hate it when I see hacks like in Mandrake 10 where the system startup code tries to modify the config file if the nvidia module is not loaded. It simply prefixes the associated line with '#', on every boot, every time! ######
As much as I see xml overused everywhere, having the configuration in a clean xml file would probably be best.
--jeff++
Yes, or related: I run vncserver as well as X11 locally. Log into both running gnome on the same home directory and failures happen all over the place! kde has this problem too. Some types of program defaults should be XDISPLAY specific.
--jeff++
.... are BEST parted.
The last thing you want is the world to be full of fools with lots of money screwing things up for everyone else!
--jeff++
Now you've gone and done it! You are about to slashdot your own website just because of your sig!
(nice pics btw!)
--jeff++
Some ISP's (like shaw.ca) have mail servers that refuse to relay a mail message that is bcc'd to more than 10 people. This breaks mail list programs nicely.
Other external ISP's like Earthlink refuse to accept email directly from some other ISP's user IP addresses.
The only solution is to buy or rent or colocate a server and have full control yourself.
--jeff++
I used to write C code for a processor with 32 bit char's. Now I write code for a processor with 40 bit longs and 8 bit char's! You really get to see how 'portable' C code is when you compile on such diverse architectures! Very little code works without modification.
--jeff++
Unfortunately this doesn't fix the problem with Virtual PC. Install works fine (textmode) but then booting crashes with a processor error immediately after uncompressing the kernel. Must be related to the 4K page update? :-(
--jeff++
I hate it when w3c or whoever designs a standard without the foresight to even allow appropriate growth and backwards compatibility in the future without ugly hacks.
--jeff++
--jeff++