Why don't you do something about the driver issues yourselves and stop trolling the world?
because reverse engineering or locating product specifications and writing a clean, non IP infringing open source driver requires both an education(formal or otherwise) and time and resource. OEMs are still a better bet, as they usually write their own drivers anyways, and using linux would 'force' end users to use the OEM upgrade process since buying most 'off the shelf' hardware like add in cards would be a hassle end users couldn't handle.
many OEMs already adjust the riser height to be 'higher' or 'lower' profile than standard risers, to make add in cards incompatable anyways.. so if OEMs could be convinced that they'd be more profitable, and have a marketable product in selling linux desktops, they would. in the budget space, there is some viability of using linux, but many people consider gaming (specifically commercial gaming) to be too strong a selling point to move away from windows in the mid range and higher classes.
too bad indrema never got off the ground, most likely it was the lack of linux actually being geared towards the needs of high end gamers... as well as people who were trying to dream a big dream instead fo running a sucessful buisness;)
first of all, microsoft will eventually tank anyways, and most likely the guys on wallstreet will want to know when it happens, so they can be prpepared for it. At some point either bill gates will stop trying or die, or whatever, or he will over compete, and create such a strong backlash from his ruthless efforts to make open source software illegal/prevent any commercial software companies from competing that the government really does break microsoft up.
That or microsoft will spend all it's vast energy and reosurces trying to find new growth opportunities, instead of finding the growth markets it can leverage for more profit, that they become difavored by wall-street and they stagnate and people find some other hot company to invest in. Like maybe some dreamer who's figured out a sensible buisness plan that say turns switchgrass or algea from 'possible' energy alternatives to 'profitable' alternative energy sources, and manages to get past all the hurdles of people who would love to see that person fail, and might even be willing to resort to illegal activities to help ensure it fails etc.
if just such a company were to come along today, and make it's way past every hurdle, and consistantly had a viable long term growth model, wall-street would forget everything microsoft has done for them in a heartbeat. Energy has proven itself as a viable sustainable high profit industry. Renewable energy has the silver lining of 'never running out' while still having the variables such as 'weather' to create periodic price instability to create buy/sell opportunities that people seem to love so much.
in any case, wall-street doesn't hinge on one single company they hinge on there always being enough strong companies to drive the speculation and share values higher. microsoft crushing all computer competitors would be far worse for wall-street than linux crushing microsoft, because then there would be thousands of 'linux' companies to drive speculation into a frenzy.
Which is why the FDA is in chage of regulating this, imagine company X located in texas makes a cleaner with 'superfine nanotechnology' scrubbing agents, and some child in tennesee drinks said superfine cleaning agent, gets sick and is hospitalized... because we don't want the tenessee militia mobilizing on texas, it's being handled by the FDA. but technically you are correct, the federal government can make a big fuss, but if californians wanted to make the use of nanotechology legal in the state of california they're just a single proposition away from doing so. it just can't be exported to any other state, without FDA approval.
you have no idea of what the publishing world is like do you?
wal-mart sells books... the books wal-mart sells are 'mass market' books. mass market books earn revenues 100-150x higher than 'niche book lover' generas. why do you think everyone and their brother has read 'the da vinci code' why do you think most people have heard of 'john grishham' or 'stephen king'? only geeks read books? you're way off base.
try breaking into the world of publishing some time. 'geeky book lovers' are an unimportant crowd to the publishing world. they are after the oprah audience, they are after the people who read 2-10 books a year.
Thy wish they could make those people read 20-30 book a year, and pay just as much... yes publishers provide books for every market segment imaginable, but the authors they're looking for are the ones that get kids to read books like jk rowling. not the ones that can capture the hearts and minds a few thousand readers who can spend 10 hours a day reading books.
Whats really missing here is a 'killer' product that allows one to 'curl up in a sofa' and read, laptops are too cumbersome, e-book readers and tablet pcs are akward as well, sure a laptop on a coffe table is great for 'curling up' to watch video but, text which needs to be aligned to the way your head is pointing for maximum decypherability doesn't work so well.
You say it's a generation gap, but honestly, you're a geek or a nerd, not a 'normal' gen 'Y'er. Normal kids are using their computers to play video games, or get porn, and are doing a lot of other things and when they do 'read' it's for school, and primarily with paper books and magazines. It is true the Gen Y geeks and nerds have become accustomed to using screens as reading interfaces, but the norms couoldn't care less. and in the terms of publishing the norms are the target audience. Norms even in gen Y have limited capabilities with computer, they know what google is, but if they can't find stuff on the first few links they give up. actually using computers to find and download texts? the norms would give up so quickly they'd find it much more useful to go to a book store or a library and have someone who can 'do the grunt work for them.'
So unless someone designs a 'paper book' killer app and hardware set (basically an ipod+i-tunes music store) they way apple did for digital music gen Y simply won't pick up on digital reading. They will want something easy, sleek and stylish, that they can feel comfortable using for reading.
One thing that could really make digital books take off with gen Y is a portal site that works off the same principal of Netflix, you go through a list of books you've read, rate them from 'hated it' to 'loved it' and the site starts reccomending books you might like the way a bookstore employee could. basic search functionality is useless to the average gen Y er without reccomendation functionality even if they find 'curling up' in front of the pc relaxing they would still need the basic funtionality of someone to give them really accurate advice whos reccomendatiosn they go 'wow i never would have know i loved book p!'
then there needs to be a digital device, as convenient to carry around as a psp, that can access this site, and easily be used to curl up and read the books... otherwise gen Y even with their accostomedness to digital screens will find that 'googling' for books is clucky andand hard, and they'd rather just go to a bokstore.
but his point was that 1 single gps reciever + i CPU capable of performing a caluclation based on the past 10 stored gps data entries (for example) can give you about a 99% accurate bearing As long as you're moving. ships, even when adrift with no engines Are Always Moving. It's true that for scientific accuracy 2-4 GPs recievers are required (4 will provide more data points and more readouts of say pitch and yaw data) but for a 'cheap' solution that can be outfitted on even the poorest shrimp fishermans boat a single gps solution should be affordable in 2000 years, assuming humanity has survived the global energy wars*.
*= because if humanity continues to rely on non-renewable, non fusion/fission based power sources there really is only about a handful of generations worth of 'energy growth' before resource shortages result in a bloody war for Who can live in a 'modern' civilized manner vs the poor masses forced to survive on animanl and human labor. and that's just assuming we manage to switch from oil dependancy to FNGs/coaltar/coal etc dependancies. most likely, we Will choose to switch to say, an improved design sodium cooled fission reactor (which would produce no radioactive waste prior to decommissioning, as it's uranium rods would never deplete before the overhaul life cycle of the reactor) or have reliable fission reactors... before the energy source options left to replace our post peak liquid oil reserves are fully depleted. at least, in civilized nations the solutions to the problem will be realized. like canada. who is now the number one exporter of petrolium products to the US because of their ENORMOUS coaltar reserves.
actually just about any processor will underclock stabilly, and undervoltaging is something that needs to be tested chip by chip, but in genenral a chip that excells at overclocking Should Also excell at underclocking. there can be instances where this isn't true, but in genenral a part that overclocks well has the quality to run stabily when undervoltaged, unless it was 'factory' undervoltaged (by design for instance) and doesn't have much of a floor to play with.
and again, most 'overclocking' boards will allow you to 'underclock' or 'undervolt' and generally underclocking is completely unlocked (afterall there is no monetary reason to not let a 2.0 ghz part run at 1.5 ghz and produce less noise) HSF is also important when going for undervoltaing, since you're trying to acheive quiet stable operation a variable rpm fan on a good heatsink is important. of course the AMD Retail chips come with a fairly decent HSF and some models have variable rpm. there are better HSFs on the market, but most cost considerably more.
but the entrance requirements are pretty high. unless your dad happens to be an ivy leager with companies worth hundreds of millions... which explains the difference between people like clinton who had to work his way into the schools, vs g.w. who simply had to have his daddy pay for private tutors to do his homework...
frankly that should be what ivy leagues get the most flack for is giving easy rides to the rich and powerful. They can offer academic challenge to those really looking for it.
well, I can't quite discount what you've said, could you clarify how these 'inturrupts' that can occur 1000 times a minute (that's how many tcp/ip frames a pro level match, with several pro level players generates) allows the fpu to cool down?
ah well. Now i'm back to trying to figure out if it's the sound or graphic subsystem that's the issue, or if it's simply a 'disconect' hack that exploits a flaw in the amd-64 cpu. meh.
Although the article specifies 2.6 and 2.8 ghz opterons, I've crashed my Venice core 3000+ socket 754 7 times from online gaming conditions generated by a particilar application (warcraft 3 TFT)
I thought it was the graphic card at first, but the type of crash I've been experiencing and the difficulty to reproduce it (I generally have to play AT with a pro gamer and go on about a 7 game win streak to get game conditions right for the crash) and it does have to be warm in my room...
WC3TFT can reproducably create a lot of memory operations at very High speeds repeatably, millions of times? try millions of operations over a 10 minute game. Sounds like it's not just 'hypothetical' to me.
actually, the virtualization software or the 'host OS' itself handles the scheduling. in server farms quite often the virtualization software runs 'bare metal' (eg: the system boots straight into the virtualization software, and loads any images etc.) but most geeks run it on top of a full fledged Os where the software can rely on any built in shcedulers etc. I have noticed that certain devices (soundcards, for example) don't always play nicely with being shared, but others (LAN cards) handle being shared very transparently. there is room for improvment in sound cards, saddly there seems to be little motivation to innovate. sytle over substance seems to be the name of the game, although in this case that means 'sounds clearer' over actually being able to processes multiple simultaneous audio effects.
well there is the Audigy 2 X-Fi series, which on paper is a dramatic improvement, but is 8 simultaneous real-time sound events fast enough? I just kinda wonder because in the games I play (online), most people use hot keys to toggle sound effects anyways.
besides which i'm not even sure if the audigy x-fi cards would even work properly with virtualization software. but, i can't think of another card with as much technical capability for generating sound effects. although i'm not that familiar with the $1000+ range products on the market.
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and i could have checked for that too, nice catch.
I still know somewhere out there someone called an imac and emac, not knowing the difference.
I have a pretty simple solution for you on that 'shared' directory, rather than linking the folder itself, sybolically link all the files in a special folder, when people 'delete' a file they're 'deleting' the symbolic link to it, and have a crontab set up to scour those 'shared' directories for 'added' files, and then put a little 'script' that outputs a ls of the real content of that folder, and then another to allow users to 'add' files that weren't in their magic folder before.
that would take away the 'accidental' deletion issue, but then takes away some of the ease of people sharing the files with everyone.
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Well the problem here is you're using the roman numeral for 6 VI which is in the titles of many popular movies, etc etc. etc. then again Imacs get called emacs by some clueless newbies too, and once you narrow it to 'emacs text editor' or 'vi text editor' vi still comes out on top, but only by a 4-5 fold margin. much more realistic than a '20 fold' greater popularity.
well, if only 96% of japanese students go on to highschool, and in america, only 4.5% drop out that's Still a 1.5% advantage, also in america, people drop out for a lot of reasons other than 'i sucked in school' because 13% of our population is below the poverty line, there are a number of very real housholds, where the kid may well choose to drop out of highschool to take up that full time job at the fast food down the street that they can walk to... so that they can put food on the table for their brothers and sisters... japan doesn't have anywhere NEAR that percantage below the poverty line. so while at least half a percantage point for 'deviation' needs to be considered, as we don't actually know that smart students aren't dropping out.
a couple things, first off, a MPEG-4 is not necisarly 'lower' quality than a mpeg-2 even though MPEG-4 can support up to 100:1 compression, while mpeg-2 tends to run around 20:1-25:1. Just like a 96 KBPS ogg vorbis can easily sound 'better' than a 192kbps Mp3, because the 'lossiness' creates different effects.
So if you're starting with fully cleaned up, and optomized uncompressed(or mathamatically lossless compressed) images it's quite easy to create a very small very clean, very high quality looking mpeg-4. all with a very reasonable file size. if you're starting from an already lossily compressed image, image loss will be inevitable. and the file sizes will go up for the same quality.
that's why if you take a commercially pressed DVD and try to make an mpeg-4 it winds up take a lot more space/looking bad...
Infant mortality by definition is in the calculation of life expectancy "If an age is not specified, life expectancy is understood to be from birth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
for any other case you must say "life expectance of people age X is Y" where X is an arbitrary Age you specify (say 1 year, to 'avoid' infant mortality) and Y is equal to "the average age of death, minus X"
as to the rest of my comemnt i only want to clarify whay i brought in the japanese into the discussion, GGP was suggesting that 'vegitarian' diet fads would lead to a cessation of the eating of meat. diet fads are temporary, you really can't count on people to 'give up red meat' for multiple generations, when the addiction to red meat is an Evolved trait. and yeah, for quickly bulking up on muscle and fat, there are few better ways than to eat plenty of red meat.
the funny thing though is that the barbie B-book is real, although it normally seems to carry a pricetag around $75.. and is generally modled as a 'children's learning toy' the april fools here is that somehow matell has decided that using a via c3 processor setup and debian linux will somehow produce a usable b-book environment (and price point) by the christmas holiday season.
Considering that they'd been using Oregon Scientific devices previously (which are all Z-80 based BTW) It's pretty far fetched to expect them to suddendly switch from the Z-80 over to something like a C3 overnight. I'm not sure where the whole palm reference comes from, As the Barbie B-book has never run Palm os It's always been a simple Z-80 based computer... designed for kids to learn and play with barbie.
Perhaps This christmas they were going to update the b-book line from the Z-80 class chips to something palm had convinced them to buy? I can't seem to find any press releases related to that though.
or are even the april fools jokes written by complete computer illiterates who don't understand that the B-book has always been running on Z-80 deriviative hardware?
ahah found it i needed to save an april foold day page, and taek the fools.css copy it and change everything with 'red' -fools and a 'high red color' and modify them.
It feels so good to be included as the.2% who don't get laid. I'm glad you included all 1,800 of us, who won't get laid. (wrongly assuming that there are 900,000 slashdotters, which is greatly infladed by mass accounts etc.) so really being one of 18 slashdotters who will not wind up being laid, not even as a sign of the apocalypse just kinda makes me feel special.
perhaps it is more like 110,000 yen is comperable to an american enthusiast spending $800 usd on a video player? afterall there are median incomes, etc other factors BEYOND exchange rate to consider here. although difficult to pinpoint if that's the case, according to statistics on 'nationmaster.com' http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ja/eco http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us/eco The average income is $1,400 USD greater in japan than in america. and consider that based on the statistics gathered by nations master that japan is the 110thh MOST ienquitabbly distributed wealth nation in the world the chart only ranks 116 countries btw) there are only 6 countries with a more equitable distribution of income. so yeah, i'd have to say that in a country where Median income comes the closest to Meaning typical income... instead of a country where 'median income' is just a statistic, and the 'normal income' is actually considerably below that (america is the 31th most inequitable distributor of weath in the world, we've got the uber rich like bill gates the wal-mart family etc, and then we've got 13% of our population BELOW the poverty line etc.) that paying $986US in japan is a lot more like paying $500US in the US.
so um it's not a matter of math, it's a matter of wealth distribution. in japan the average working joe is far better off than they would be in america.
Pirated downloads don't come close to the quality of a DVD
Apparently you've never downloaded any 720P or 1080P video off usenet, bit torrent etc. It Is out there, and yes, even in mpeg4 the filesizes are huge. and the easiest to find content are popular TV shows that are broadcast in 720p or 1080i like 24. you shouldn't compare the apples of 'VCD sized' DivX;-) to the oranges of full bitrate HD mpeg-4's that although much less common are available in some circumstances.
BTW, the typical 'naruto' episode while taking less than 170MB (~23 minutes runtime) actually rivals or matches the quality of any comercially pressed DVD. The subtitles are about 10x better looking than the best commercial DVD too. (because fansubbing software allows the use of any font, including custom generated ones, while commercially pressed DVDs seem to all be stuck in the stonage fonts that used to be bundled with dos 5.22 or below)
so i honestly don't know what you're downloading to make you think that download quality is all crap, because the vast majority of people downloading are getting the good stuff. (about 300,000 people download the typical naruto episode, according to the tracker statistics, and that's just from one of 4 groups performing fansubs on the series)
How many people are willing to hassle with a fully submersible oil-cooled PC?
If you have the money, you can just pay for someone else to do the hassle for you. including maintaining/replacing mineral oil as needed. I'm sure there are plenty of people trying to 'sell' the idea of a perfectly silent computer system to the people rich enough to pay twice the price for a PC that makes no noise. If not it's a protentially lucrative market just waiting for someone to convice the rich that they need to distinquish themsleves from the poor who suffer with incredibly noisy PCs.
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Why don't you do something about the driver issues yourselves and stop trolling the world?
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because reverse engineering or locating product specifications and writing a clean, non IP infringing open source driver requires both an education(formal or otherwise) and time and resource. OEMs are still a better bet, as they usually write their own drivers anyways, and using linux would 'force' end users to use the OEM upgrade process since buying most 'off the shelf' hardware like add in cards would be a hassle end users couldn't handle.
many OEMs already adjust the riser height to be 'higher' or 'lower' profile than standard risers, to make add in cards incompatable anyways.. so if OEMs could be convinced that they'd be more profitable, and have a marketable product in selling linux desktops, they would. in the budget space, there is some viability of using linux, but many people consider gaming (specifically commercial gaming) to be too strong a selling point to move away from windows in the mid range and higher classes.
too bad indrema never got off the ground, most likely it was the lack of linux actually being geared towards the needs of high end gamers... as well as people who were trying to dream a big dream instead fo running a sucessful buisness
first of all, microsoft will eventually tank anyways, and most likely the guys on wallstreet will want to know when it happens, so they can be prpepared for it. At some point either bill gates will stop trying or die, or whatever, or he will over compete, and create such a strong backlash from his ruthless efforts to make open source software illegal/prevent any commercial software companies from competing that the government really does break microsoft up.
That or microsoft will spend all it's vast energy and reosurces trying to find new growth opportunities, instead of finding the growth markets it can leverage for more profit, that they become difavored by wall-street and they stagnate and people find some other hot company to invest in. Like maybe some dreamer who's figured out a sensible buisness plan that say turns switchgrass or algea from 'possible' energy alternatives to 'profitable' alternative energy sources, and manages to get past all the hurdles of people who would love to see that person fail, and might even be willing to resort to illegal activities to help ensure it fails etc.
if just such a company were to come along today, and make it's way past every hurdle, and consistantly had a viable long term growth model, wall-street would forget everything microsoft has done for them in a heartbeat. Energy has proven itself as a viable sustainable high profit industry. Renewable energy has the silver lining of 'never running out' while still having the variables such as 'weather' to create periodic price instability to create buy/sell opportunities that people seem to love so much.
in any case, wall-street doesn't hinge on one single company they hinge on there always being enough strong companies to drive the speculation and share values higher. microsoft crushing all computer competitors would be far worse for wall-street than linux crushing microsoft, because then there would be thousands of 'linux' companies to drive speculation into a frenzy.
Which is why the FDA is in chage of regulating this, imagine company X located in texas makes a cleaner with 'superfine nanotechnology' scrubbing agents, and some child in tennesee drinks said superfine cleaning agent, gets sick and is hospitalized... because we don't want the tenessee militia mobilizing on texas, it's being handled by the FDA. but technically you are correct, the federal government can make a big fuss, but if californians wanted to make the use of nanotechology legal in the state of california they're just a single proposition away from doing so. it just can't be exported to any other state, without FDA approval.
But what people really want to know is have they approched hannibal lecter as a spokesperson yet?
you have no idea of what the publishing world is like do you?
wal-mart sells books... the books wal-mart sells are 'mass market' books. mass market books earn revenues 100-150x higher than 'niche book lover' generas. why do you think everyone and their brother has read 'the da vinci code' why do you think most people have heard of 'john grishham' or 'stephen king'? only geeks read books? you're way off base.
try breaking into the world of publishing some time. 'geeky book lovers' are an unimportant crowd to the publishing world. they are after the oprah audience, they are after the people who read 2-10 books a year.
Thy wish they could make those people read 20-30 book a year, and pay just as much... yes publishers provide books for every market segment imaginable, but the authors they're looking for are the ones that get kids to read books like jk rowling. not the ones that can capture the hearts and minds a few thousand readers who can spend 10 hours a day reading books.
Whats really missing here is a 'killer' product that allows one to 'curl up in a sofa' and read, laptops are too cumbersome, e-book readers and tablet pcs are akward as well, sure a laptop on a coffe table is great for 'curling up' to watch video but, text which needs to be aligned to the way your head is pointing for maximum decypherability doesn't work so well.
You say it's a generation gap, but honestly, you're a geek or a nerd, not a 'normal' gen 'Y'er. Normal kids are using their computers to play video games, or get porn, and are doing a lot of other things and when they do 'read' it's for school, and primarily with paper books and magazines. It is true the Gen Y geeks and nerds have become accustomed to using screens as reading interfaces, but the norms couoldn't care less. and in the terms of publishing the norms are the target audience. Norms even in gen Y have limited capabilities with computer, they know what google is, but if they can't find stuff on the first few links they give up. actually using computers to find and download texts? the norms would give up so quickly they'd find it much more useful to go to a book store or a library and have someone who can 'do the grunt work for them.'
So unless someone designs a 'paper book' killer app and hardware set (basically an ipod+i-tunes music store) they way apple did for digital music gen Y simply won't pick up on digital reading. They will want something easy, sleek and stylish, that they can feel comfortable using for reading.
One thing that could really make digital books take off with gen Y is a portal site that works off the same principal of Netflix, you go through a list of books you've read, rate them from 'hated it' to 'loved it' and the site starts reccomending books you might like the way a bookstore employee could. basic search functionality is useless to the average gen Y er without reccomendation functionality even if they find 'curling up' in front of the pc relaxing they would still need the basic funtionality of someone to give them really accurate advice whos reccomendatiosn they go 'wow i never would have know i loved book p!'
then there needs to be a digital device, as convenient to carry around as a psp, that can access this site, and easily be used to curl up and read the books... otherwise gen Y even with their accostomedness to digital screens will find that 'googling' for books is clucky andand hard, and they'd rather just go to a bokstore.
but his point was that 1 single gps reciever + i CPU capable of performing a caluclation based on the past 10 stored gps data entries (for example) can give you about a 99% accurate bearing As long as you're moving. ships, even when adrift with no engines Are Always Moving. It's true that for scientific accuracy 2-4 GPs recievers are required (4 will provide more data points and more readouts of say pitch and yaw data) but for a 'cheap' solution that can be outfitted on even the poorest shrimp fishermans boat a single gps solution should be affordable in 2000 years, assuming humanity has survived the global energy wars*.
*= because if humanity continues to rely on non-renewable, non fusion/fission based power sources there really is only about a handful of generations worth of 'energy growth' before resource shortages result in a bloody war for Who can live in a 'modern' civilized manner vs the poor masses forced to survive on animanl and human labor. and that's just assuming we manage to switch from oil dependancy to FNGs/coaltar/coal etc dependancies. most likely, we Will choose to switch to say, an improved design sodium cooled fission reactor (which would produce no radioactive waste prior to decommissioning, as it's uranium rods would never deplete before the overhaul life cycle of the reactor) or have reliable fission reactors... before the energy source options left to replace our post peak liquid oil reserves are fully depleted. at least, in civilized nations the solutions to the problem will be realized. like canada. who is now the number one exporter of petrolium products to the US because of their ENORMOUS coaltar reserves.
actually just about any processor will underclock stabilly, and undervoltaging is something that needs to be tested chip by chip, but in genenral a chip that excells at overclocking Should Also excell at underclocking. there can be instances where this isn't true, but in genenral a part that overclocks well has the quality to run stabily when undervoltaged, unless it was 'factory' undervoltaged (by design for instance) and doesn't have much of a floor to play with.
and again, most 'overclocking' boards will allow you to 'underclock' or 'undervolt' and generally underclocking is completely unlocked (afterall there is no monetary reason to not let a 2.0 ghz part run at 1.5 ghz and produce less noise) HSF is also important when going for undervoltaing, since you're trying to acheive quiet stable operation a variable rpm fan on a good heatsink is important. of course the AMD Retail chips come with a fairly decent HSF and some models have variable rpm. there are better HSFs on the market, but most cost considerably more.
but the entrance requirements are pretty high. unless your dad happens to be an ivy leager with companies worth hundreds of millions... which explains the difference between people like clinton who had to work his way into the schools, vs g.w. who simply had to have his daddy pay for private tutors to do his homework...
frankly that should be what ivy leagues get the most flack for is giving easy rides to the rich and powerful. They can offer academic challenge to those really looking for it.
I know, I saw the tagline '27 playable wii games at e3' and the first thing that popped into my head was 'wow 27 playable games, i think i wet myself'
;) it's not that funny.
The best thing about the wii is you control it with your wand. (read it a again, if you didn't catch the pun)
ahh well, the wii is a most enjoyable name... every time i think about the wii i feal a huge relief.
okay that's enough
well, I can't quite discount what you've said, could you clarify how these 'inturrupts' that can occur 1000 times a minute (that's how many tcp/ip frames a pro level match, with several pro level players generates) allows the fpu to cool down?
ah well. Now i'm back to trying to figure out if it's the sound or graphic subsystem that's the issue, or if it's simply a 'disconect' hack that exploits a flaw in the amd-64 cpu. meh.
Although the article specifies 2.6 and 2.8 ghz opterons, I've crashed my Venice core 3000+ socket 754 7 times from online gaming conditions generated by a particilar application (warcraft 3 TFT)
I thought it was the graphic card at first, but the type of crash I've been experiencing and the difficulty to reproduce it (I generally have to play AT with a pro gamer and go on about a 7 game win streak to get game conditions right for the crash) and it does have to be warm in my room...
WC3TFT can reproducably create a lot of memory operations at very High speeds repeatably, millions of times? try millions of operations over a 10 minute game. Sounds like it's not just 'hypothetical' to me.
actually, the virtualization software or the 'host OS' itself handles the scheduling. in server farms quite often the virtualization software runs 'bare metal' (eg: the system boots straight into the virtualization software, and loads any images etc.) but most geeks run it on top of a full fledged Os where the software can rely on any built in shcedulers etc. I have noticed that certain devices (soundcards, for example) don't always play nicely with being shared, but others (LAN cards) handle being shared very transparently. there is room for improvment in sound cards, saddly there seems to be little motivation to innovate. sytle over substance seems to be the name of the game, although in this case that means 'sounds clearer' over actually being able to processes multiple simultaneous audio effects.
well there is the Audigy 2 X-Fi series, which on paper is a dramatic improvement, but is 8 simultaneous real-time sound events fast enough? I just kinda wonder because in the games I play (online), most people use hot keys to toggle sound effects anyways.
besides which i'm not even sure if the audigy x-fi cards would even work properly with virtualization software. but, i can't think of another card with as much technical capability for generating sound effects. although i'm not that familiar with the $1000+ range products on the market.
and i could have checked for that too, nice catch.
I still know somewhere out there someone called an imac and emac, not knowing the difference.
I have a pretty simple solution for you on that 'shared' directory, rather than linking the folder itself, sybolically link all the files in a special folder, when people 'delete' a file they're 'deleting' the symbolic link to it, and have a crontab set up to scour those 'shared' directories for 'added' files, and then put a little 'script' that outputs a ls of the real content of that folder, and then another to allow users to 'add' files that weren't in their magic folder before.
that would take away the 'accidental' deletion issue, but then takes away some of the ease of people sharing the files with everyone.
Well the problem here is you're using the roman numeral for 6 VI which is in the titles of many popular movies, etc etc. etc. then again Imacs get called emacs by some clueless newbies too, and once you narrow it to 'emacs text editor' or 'vi text editor' vi still comes out on top, but only by a 4-5 fold margin. much more realistic than a '20 fold' greater popularity.
well, if only 96% of japanese students go on to highschool, and in america, only 4.5% drop out that's Still a 1.5% advantage, also in america, people drop out for a lot of reasons other than 'i sucked in school' because 13% of our population is below the poverty line, there are a number of very real housholds, where the kid may well choose to drop out of highschool to take up that full time job at the fast food down the street that they can walk to... so that they can put food on the table for their brothers and sisters... japan doesn't have anywhere NEAR that percantage below the poverty line. so while at least half a percantage point for 'deviation' needs to be considered, as we don't actually know that smart students aren't dropping out.
a couple things, first off, a MPEG-4 is not necisarly 'lower' quality than a mpeg-2 even though MPEG-4 can support up to 100:1 compression, while mpeg-2 tends to run around 20:1-25:1. Just like a 96 KBPS ogg vorbis can easily sound 'better' than a 192kbps Mp3, because the 'lossiness' creates different effects.
So if you're starting with fully cleaned up, and optomized uncompressed(or mathamatically lossless compressed) images it's quite easy to create a very small very clean, very high quality looking mpeg-4. all with a very reasonable file size. if you're starting from an already lossily compressed image, image loss will be inevitable. and the file sizes will go up for the same quality.
that's why if you take a commercially pressed DVD and try to make an mpeg-4 it winds up take a lot more space/looking bad...
Infant mortality by definition is in the calculation of life expectancy "If an age is not specified, life expectancy is understood to be from birth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
for any other case you must say "life expectance of people age X is Y" where X is an arbitrary Age you specify (say 1 year, to 'avoid' infant mortality) and Y is equal to "the average age of death, minus X"
as to the rest of my comemnt i only want to clarify whay i brought in the japanese into the discussion, GGP was suggesting that 'vegitarian' diet fads would lead to a cessation of the eating of meat. diet fads are temporary, you really can't count on people to 'give up red meat' for multiple generations, when the addiction to red meat is an Evolved trait. and yeah, for quickly bulking up on muscle and fat, there are few better ways than to eat plenty of red meat.
the funny thing though is that the barbie B-book is real, although it normally seems to carry a pricetag around $75.. and is generally modled as a 'children's learning toy' the april fools here is that somehow matell has decided that using a via c3 processor setup and debian linux will somehow produce a usable b-book environment (and price point) by the christmas holiday season.
Considering that they'd been using Oregon Scientific devices previously (which are all Z-80 based BTW) It's pretty far fetched to expect them to suddendly switch from the Z-80 over to something like a C3 overnight. I'm not sure where the whole palm reference comes from, As the Barbie B-book has never run Palm os It's always been a simple Z-80 based computer... designed for kids to learn and play with barbie.
Perhaps This christmas they were going to update the b-book line from the Z-80 class chips to something palm had convinced them to buy? I can't seem to find any press releases related to that though.
or are even the april fools jokes written by complete computer illiterates who don't understand that the B-book has always been running on Z-80 deriviative hardware?
ahah found it i needed to save an april foold day page, and taek the fools.css copy it and change everything with 'red' -fools and a 'high red color' and modify them.
It feels so good to be included as the .2% who don't get laid. I'm glad you included all 1,800 of us, who won't get laid. (wrongly assuming that there are 900,000 slashdotters, which is greatly infladed by mass accounts etc.) so really being one of 18 slashdotters who will not wind up being laid, not even as a sign of the apocalypse just kinda makes me feel special.
perhaps it is more like 110,000 yen is comperable to an american enthusiast spending $800 usd on a video player? afterall there are median incomes, etc other factors BEYOND exchange rate to consider here. although difficult to pinpoint if that's the case, according to statistics on 'nationmaster.com' http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ja/eco
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us/eco
The average income is $1,400 USD greater in japan than in america. and consider that based on the statistics gathered by nations master that japan is the 110thh MOST ienquitabbly distributed wealth nation in the world the chart only ranks 116 countries btw) there are only 6 countries with a more equitable distribution of income. so yeah, i'd have to say that in a country where Median income comes the closest to Meaning typical income... instead of a country where 'median income' is just a statistic, and the 'normal income' is actually considerably below that (america is the 31th most inequitable distributor of weath in the world, we've got the uber rich like bill gates the wal-mart family etc, and then we've got 13% of our population BELOW the poverty line etc.) that paying $986US in japan is a lot more like paying $500US in the US.
so um it's not a matter of math, it's a matter of wealth distribution. in japan the average working joe is far better off than they would be in america.
Pirated downloads don't come close to the quality of a DVD
;-) to the oranges of full bitrate HD mpeg-4's that although much less common are available in some circumstances.
Apparently you've never downloaded any 720P or 1080P video off usenet, bit torrent etc. It Is out there, and yes, even in mpeg4 the filesizes are huge. and the easiest to find content are popular TV shows that are broadcast in 720p or 1080i like 24. you shouldn't compare the apples of 'VCD sized' DivX
BTW, the typical 'naruto' episode while taking less than 170MB (~23 minutes runtime) actually rivals or matches the quality of any comercially pressed DVD. The subtitles are about 10x better looking than the best commercial DVD too. (because fansubbing software allows the use of any font, including custom generated ones, while commercially pressed DVDs seem to all be stuck in the stonage fonts that used to be bundled with dos 5.22 or below)
so i honestly don't know what you're downloading to make you think that download quality is all crap, because the vast majority of people downloading are getting the good stuff. (about 300,000 people download the typical naruto episode, according to the tracker statistics, and that's just from one of 4 groups performing fansubs on the series)
How many people are willing to hassle with a fully submersible oil-cooled PC?
If you have the money, you can just pay for someone else to do the hassle for you. including maintaining/replacing mineral oil as needed. I'm sure there are plenty of people trying to 'sell' the idea of a perfectly silent computer system to the people rich enough to pay twice the price for a PC that makes no noise. If not it's a protentially lucrative market just waiting for someone to convice the rich that they need to distinquish themsleves from the poor who suffer with incredibly noisy PCs.