> I just wish it had an option to double-buffer on X Window
It does, if you compile it yourself.
./configure --disable-double-buffer
Uh, it appears I wasn't clear enough; I was talking about the X server's own buffering, not the client's. Most X clients leave the server alone (and thus their windows are buffered by the server, eg. while dragging) but Mozilla somehow deactivates that and insists on doing the redraws itself, which is slow, ugly, and overall unsatisfying.
I just left 4.78 behind last week and switched ot Mozilla as my main browser. I just wish it had an option to double-buffer on X Window, as my work machine is a bit sluggish and redraw is painful when dragging windows around and such.
However, KDE is not as consistently easy to use as Windows. Some of the apps have horrible UIs or were written by people who don't speak
English as a first language (KPackage comes to mind...).
Yes, and your point is... ?
My mom is a graphic designer. None of the apps she uses on her Mac are written by people who speak her native language, yet she has no problem with that because of a very specific technology that seems little-known to North Americans: translation.
The term bel is used to indicate a factor of ten in a power ratio. Decibel denotes one-tenth of this factor on a logarithmic scale. Also, the choice
of logarithmic scale has nothing to do with the model of human hearing.
First, your response has nothing to do with my post.:)
Second, the choice of logarithmic scale has everything to do with human hearing. We "feel" a linear increase when sound pressure varies exponentially. Hence the logarithmic scale.
Slightly offtopic: that's the basis behind some very basic MIC encodings for phone voice: using a logarithmic quantization instead of a linear quantization (where the source signal is the sound pressure from the mike) with the same 8 bit/sample
deci is just the SI prefix meaning 10x, a decibel is equal to ten bels.
The logarithmic scale would apply to all floating point forms of the bel just the same.
Uh, not. The prefix for 10x is deca, not deci. So a decibel is a tenth of a bel.
You realize, that if there is a full-scale (i.e. ww3) war between the USA and China, it will go nuclear pretty fucking fast. I think Bush would have
the balls to do that
You certainy mean, "I think Bush would not have the brains to not do that", don't you?
Actually the monthly cap on cable is for upload bandwidth, download is unmettered. But most people (myself included) don't like the idea of
having to pay for extra upload traffic (which they don't really control) and prefer and lower speed-unmettered upload with ADSL.
In my (ok, humble and statistically unsignificant, yet actual) experience, DSL offers a better bandwidth, even with the 512Kbps cap. It just happens that the local Cable is a lousy ISP, while my DSL ISP has a nice backbone.
I.e., a European ISP has to pay both
for the use of the undersea cable between US and Europe, and then by the byte for the traffic going to and from the US part of the Internet.
This used to be true a few years ago; now the major European players actually are world-players by alliance or whatever. For instance, France Telecom, which is the biggest French (that is, within the country) backbone provider, happens to own Global One, and has remaining ties with Sprint among others, plus major or complete ownership of a bunch of transoceanic fiber paths and telecom satellites. Same goes for BT, Telia, etc.
OTOH smaller countries/ISPs are bound to pay for bandwidth, just like Mom&Pop ISPs in the States do.
this hasn't happened in the states. I realize that this may be a bit offtopic but it does interest me. Do we just have the infrastructure to handle all
of these spiffy new 1.5mb DSL lines or is there enough competition
Back-end bandwidth is cheaper in the States. Reason: you are right at the core of the network, while Australia is at the far-end, and has to buy heaps of undersea bandwidth (or fiber+hardware) for those pesky broadband customers.
[off-topic rant:] yet another case where market rules are biased towards the bigger players.
Here in Paris there are two choices for broadband: Cable, cheaper but with a mothly traffic cap, and DSL, somewhat more expensive but free of traffic limits. Net result is: Cable is vaguely stable (remember the overall market is expanding), DSL grows real fast.
I guess it's time for some competition in Australia...
alright adolf, I'll bite. first off the point if the internet is interconnectivity, borderless ungoverned freedom, and no ghestapo Government breathing
down your back. The government shouldn't even be involved in the internet as far as I'm concerned. Nationality has little bearing on it. the usage
of.com is for 'commercial' sites only, see how the US gov slipped into making it more of a 'default' domain, leaving even the.net and.org TLD's
as second rate. Perhaps the solution is to make a new TLD governed by an administration that's more responcible about freedom, justice and
liberty (wait, wasn't that supposed to be those things americas were so proud of?)
Windows, the Mac, and the X GUIs GNOME and KDE address this problem by hiding the filesystem whenever it can. In Windows, you click on
an icon or navigate the Start menu to start a program instead of finding the executable foo.exe somewhere in c:\Program Files\foo\. Unfortunately,
the filesystem still rears its ugly head frequently, and forces people to wander through it.
Mac OS (Classic, not X) does not do that. It does the exact opposite: put the filesystem in plain, obvious, tangible view. The user actually manipulates files and folders, and never touches an abstraction like the Start menu, $PATH or whatever. That's one of the nice things with Mac OS (again, not X), in my experience: you really feel in control of the filesystem.
Mac OS X OTOH hides much of the filesystem and brings Start menu-like abstractions. A nice touch is the package system, where an app (or lib, or whatever) behaves like a single file, yet actually is a whole hierarchy of files and dirs for the OS. Makes packaging complex apps really nice, and allows drag-and-drop installs just like the Old Days.
They similarly hold patents on TrueType fonts, which are a blatant obvious extension of SOME aspects of TeX's Metafont.
Yes: they both describe fonts, they both have rasterizing hints... so what? Is Airbus blatantly obviously extending on Boeing's work by designing planes that happen to fly and use the same number of wings?
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I just left 4.78 behind last week and switched ot Mozilla as my main browser. I just wish it had an option to double-buffer on X Window, as my work machine is a bit sluggish and redraw is painful when dragging windows around and such.
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/technology/c ircuits/02VING.html
Yes, and your point is... ?
My mom is a graphic designer. None of the apps she uses on her Mac are written by people who speak her native language, yet she has no problem with that because of a very specific technology that seems little-known to North Americans: translation.
First, your response has nothing to do with my post. :)
Second, the choice of logarithmic scale has everything to do with human hearing. We "feel" a linear increase when sound pressure varies exponentially. Hence the logarithmic scale.
Slightly offtopic: that's the basis behind some very basic MIC encodings for phone voice: using a logarithmic quantization instead of a linear quantization (where the source signal is the sound pressure from the mike) with the same 8 bit/sample
As the owner of an old Ford T, I have always considered Ford to make the worst cars in the world.
Uh, not. The prefix for 10x is deca, not deci. So a decibel is a tenth of a bel.
Like, uh, French fries?
You certainy mean, "I think Bush would not have the brains to not do that", don't you?
In my (ok, humble and statistically unsignificant, yet actual) experience, DSL offers a better bandwidth, even with the 512Kbps cap. It just happens that the local Cable is a lousy ISP, while my DSL ISP has a nice backbone.
...which is absolutely orthogonal to what I said.
This used to be true a few years ago; now the major European players actually are world-players by alliance or whatever. For instance, France Telecom, which is the biggest French (that is, within the country) backbone provider, happens to own Global One, and has remaining ties with Sprint among others, plus major or complete ownership of a bunch of transoceanic fiber paths and telecom satellites. Same goes for BT, Telia, etc.
OTOH smaller countries/ISPs are bound to pay for bandwidth, just like Mom&Pop ISPs in the States do.
Back-end bandwidth is cheaper in the States. Reason: you are right at the core of the network, while Australia is at the far-end, and has to buy heaps of undersea bandwidth (or fiber+hardware) for those pesky broadband customers.
[off-topic rant:] yet another case where market rules are biased towards the bigger players.
I guess it's time for some competition in Australia...
No, they haven't.
Airbus and Boeing are roughly at the same safety level and track record per distance flown/time.
Not quite. Iridium satellites orbit between (roughly) between both polar circles. Iridium service is not available near the poles.
My possible answer: because most Americans think alike, and most Americans voice their opinions loudly.
Yes, possibly...
The message you refer to, and the whole mess in general, give me the impression Darren is a bit...touchy.
...or putting both Reed and de Raadt on the same planet is bound to cause trouble :-)
(no flames please, just my personal impressions)
Same here.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/05 /30/0004.html
Oh, and Reed's message above is some kind of Theo de Raadt-oriented flamebait :-)
I invoke Godwin's Law. You lose.
Mac OS (Classic, not X) does not do that. It does the exact opposite: put the filesystem in plain, obvious, tangible view. The user actually manipulates files and folders, and never touches an abstraction like the Start menu, $PATH or whatever. That's one of the nice things with Mac OS (again, not X), in my experience: you really feel in control of the filesystem.
Mac OS X OTOH hides much of the filesystem and brings Start menu-like abstractions. A nice touch is the package system, where an app (or lib, or whatever) behaves like a single file, yet actually is a whole hierarchy of files and dirs for the OS. Makes packaging complex apps really nice, and allows drag-and-drop installs just like the Old Days.
Pleaaaaaase mod the parent up! It's worth repeating...
mem*, str* would gain from it. both in the kernel and in glibc.
Yes: they both describe fonts, they both have rasterizing hints... so what? Is Airbus blatantly obviously extending on Boeing's work by designing planes that happen to fly and use the same number of wings?
And on a related matter, what could Infineon risk if they end up guilty of accidentally infringing on these patents?