How many times does it need to be proven that this is COMPLETELY UNTRUE before people get it???? The human eye can EASILY tell the difference between a large majority of any two colors in a 24 bit spectrum seperated by only one bit. Place two colors on screen, each taking up 1/2 the screen and you will see the interface where they join through a process that is referred to as "Mach Banding".
If they are NOT touching, then you are right. But since most images are made up of colors that touch each other, it a very important phenomenon.
Also find something that draws a black like diagonally at 10 degrees across a white background and tell me that 1600 x 1200 is enough. The entire reason that there is so much attention paid to antialiasing in games, fonts and graphics programs is precisely because there is no where near enough resolution on a montior. 200 dpi is a step in the right direction but it'll be at least 300 dpi before computer displays start approaching the confort level of looking at a printed page.
So you give a fairly rational dissertation on why all statistics are suspect and then INSTANTLY turn and believe a statistic because it's what you want to hear?????
Your first boot was slow because windows was busy replacing programs and DLLs that could not be replaced while the OS is running.
It is possible that future reboots may be slower because your HD has becomed fragged since the initial install and the replacement components are now spread out over your disk. Run the defragger and have it organise programs for quick start and you will be back in the pink.
Even a little knowledge can be used as a shining light to scare back the monsters of the unknown. Feel free to carry a candle of knowledge wherever you go.
Doesn't this sound an awful lot like a "Winmodem"? And arent those universally dispised by the Linux crowd because, instead of hardware, you need infinately more complex drivers? But here we have the exact same idea being proposed by a GPL proponent and suddenly it's "hands down" the greatest thing ever? At least try to appear unbiased. This flip-flop of idealism is giving me a sore neck!
The CRT "measurements" were not at all deceptive. The manufacturer bought a 17 in tube and made a complete monitor from it, then they called it a 17 in monitor. The 17 inch tube had a larger image than the 15 inch tube even though the image was 17 and 15 respectively. No one was ever trying to sell at 17 monitor that had the same or smaller image than someone elses 15 inch model. That WOULD have been deceptive, but that was NEVER the case. There was no deception of any kind.
The addition of the viewable area was "nice", but hardly informative to the point of preventing any kind of percieved fraud.
Sigh, don't make me get out the Clue by Four on you.
"Polls" are more often than not specifically sponserd by people that want to prove a point and so they specifically choose who to poll to get the results they want. If the poll doesn't come out they way they want, they bury it and try something else. If it turns out the way they want, then they have PROOF that the story is true. (bullshit)
The biggest problem we have today is people that look at a single source and believe everything they hear from it without trying to check up on the stories.
True, but those low end 1 gig processors are DIRT cheap and you can of course underclock them in the BIOS yourself to whatever you want! If you truly don't need the CPU horesepower and want to save on Electricity/fan noise, clock that 1 gig whatever to 200 Mhz! Easy!
Your hand, and that "in your mouth" story reminds me of that Darwin Award wannabe that actually SWALLOWED liquid nitrogen based on remembering wrong about the "in your mouth" trick. He wrote up a great article about all the damage and surgery required to fix that little mistake:)
See this is just wrong. Who the hell cares if it was valid HTML or not? It should just work! We run into this all the time with our TIFF and PS printing software. 90% of all TIFF an PS files in existance violate the Tiff and PS specs in some way. And guess what? WE HAVE TO STILL PRINT IT CORRECTLY!!!! If we wrote to the TIFF and PS specs and FU to all our customers that complain about us not printing what they saw on the screen in InDesign or what ever app they were printing from, we'd be completely out of buisness by now.
Until Mozilla/Netscape can properly render "broken" IE formatted webpages, it has NO HOPE of taking over market share. I personally won't use it for that specific reason. And I bet that most people using a web browser are a lot more interested in whether it works, rather than some lofty moral superiority it exudes.
Get off your high horses and do what the rest of us have to do. Make software that works dammit! Be pragmatic for once. Geez.
You might not feel the same if you actually MADE anything and tried to make a living by SELLING it only to realize that 95% of the people using your product STOLE it. This sort of thing helps and protects smaller companies and individual producers a lot more that large corperations. They can take a large hit and reamin in buisness. The small 20 person teams (Of which I belong to 2) can't.
Well I just bought the 2002 version and it contains a full version of Word 2002. So whatever bastard thing you go with your laptop is not representative of the current state of the universe.
Here's a little real information: http://works.msn.com/HomePages/Produ ctInfo_WorksSu ite2002.asp
The p4 SSE2 instructions are an OPPOURTUNITY for software companies to kick ass. A small amount of optimization on a codec can quadruple your performance. Who wouldn't do that? Who wouldn't also do it for both P4 and AMD. It's pretty simple to create CPU specific engine libraries that take advantage of various archetectures.
Video encoding and reatime editing still suffer from CPUs being AT LEAST 10x too slow. Realtime 3D has also got a LONG way to go to be able to render photorealistic billion poly scenes with 5 mile horizons in real time. 3 Ghz is NOTHING.
Course if all you do all day is web surf and iChat, then I guess none of that means anything to you...
Lets take hard drives as an example. By your logic, by now you should be able to buy, say, a new 1 gig hard drive for $5. In reality, it doesn't matter much at all what the drive capacity is. It costs $50 to manfac a hard drive. You can't manfac a drive for $50 then sell it for $5 just because it's only one gig in size. There is an absolute minimum charge that the manufacturer has to charge to stay in buisness. This is true for CPUs, MB's, Cases, CDROMs, everything.
So you are right, we have reached a price plateu (actually a price valley). We've reached the minimum possible price for manufacturing all the parts necessary to build a computer. (THat seems to be about $300, without a monitor for a general purpose PC machine) The parts just continuously get better, but the lowest end prices are not going to fall from where they are now.
It would if the database(s) is(are) irreparably corrupted or otherwise compromoised. Then there is nothing left to count at all. Far far worse than what happened in florida.
Yes but as the old addage goes. To REALLY screw something up, you need a computer.
Computerized voting is a terrible idea. It introduces thousands of potential problems into a system that was already having problems with the simple concept of a pin and a punch card. It fixes nothing, it puts at risk everything. This is an ill conceived knee-jerk reaction to a problem thout could have easily and cheaply been fixed in place. A problem that existed in only ONE place out thousands in the US.
Or the 5 dollar video card driver they decided to install. The proper selection of quality hardware/driver software is just as important as anything else. Linux drivers that are compiled into the kernel B(lack)SOD linux just like windows drivers that live in Ring 0 do. Care must be taken at all levels for the building of these machines.
But given the nearly random outcome of all "trials" in any country. You have to be willing to shell out the money yourself, no matter how right you know you are.
Yeah, well. Quake ][ looked amazing for it's day, but after playing about 1/3 of it all the great graphics dissapeared and I was left with was nothing of interest. The monsters were all the same, the rooms all looked the same. No interest, no story, no progression == quick boredom. It was no wonder that Quake ]|[ came out with no single player. Id forgot how to make an interesting single player game. Now there is hope for Doom |||. Except we are already seeing signs of there not being a coherent story and the dissapointment is settling in for those of us that want at least a little adventure with our stunning graphics.
In fact graphics take a back seat to good game play every time. Most fun 3d shooters I've played were all done on slightly older engine tech. The company focused on the game play, not the engine. Though the combination of jaw cropping graphics WITH great gameplay is far better still. But the gameplay quality in the end always wins out in my book.
Well just have to wait and see though. I still hope to be pleasantly suprised.
Of course most of the free development tools available for Linux are also available for windows as well. If that was good enough all of a sudden, then all they REALLY saved moving to Linux was the cost of a single windows seat. About $120 for workstation pro on volume (or even smart single) licensing costs. And that only on NEW machines since they already had the licenses to begin with.
Because you run Linux, you could not have even participated in the act of obtaining or using DRM music AT ALL. And as soon as you CAN do it on Linux you will have the SAME problems.
I use Windows and have thousands of mp3s and avis and have no such problem because I have not participated in any DRM contracts.
Running Linux or running Windows has NOTHING to do with participating in DRM contracts or not. (Except that on Linux you don't even have the choice).
Don't take a debate on the merits or detriments of DRM and turn it into a window vs Linux thing because it's NOT.
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How many times does it need to be proven that this is COMPLETELY UNTRUE before people get it???? The human eye can EASILY tell the difference between a large majority of any two colors in a 24 bit spectrum seperated by only one bit. Place two colors on screen, each taking up 1/2 the screen and you will see the interface where they join through a process that is referred to as "Mach Banding".
If they are NOT touching, then you are right. But since most images are made up of colors that touch each other, it a very important phenomenon.
Also find something that draws a black like diagonally at 10 degrees across a white background and tell me that 1600 x 1200 is enough. The entire reason that there is so much attention paid to antialiasing in games, fonts and graphics programs is precisely because there is no where near enough resolution on a montior. 200 dpi is a step in the right direction but it'll be at least 300 dpi before computer displays start approaching the confort level of looking at a printed page.
Course RDRAM is QDR memory, but whatever happened to the much ballyhooed bubble ram?!?!? Oh well....
So you give a fairly rational dissertation on why all statistics are suspect and then INSTANTLY turn and believe a statistic because it's what you want to hear?????
Your first boot was slow because windows was busy replacing programs and DLLs that could not be replaced while the OS is running.
It is possible that future reboots may be slower because your HD has becomed fragged since the initial install and the replacement components are now spread out over your disk. Run the defragger and have it organise programs for quick start and you will be back in the pink.
Even a little knowledge can be used as a shining light to scare back the monsters of the unknown. Feel free to carry a candle of knowledge wherever you go.
Doesn't this sound an awful lot like a "Winmodem"? And arent those universally dispised by the Linux crowd because, instead of hardware, you need infinately more complex drivers? But here we have the exact same idea being proposed by a GPL proponent and suddenly it's "hands down" the greatest thing ever? At least try to appear unbiased. This flip-flop of idealism is giving me a sore neck!
The CRT "measurements" were not at all deceptive. The manufacturer bought a 17 in tube and made a complete monitor from it, then they called it a 17 in monitor. The 17 inch tube had a larger image than the 15 inch tube even though the image was 17 and 15 respectively. No one was ever trying to sell at 17 monitor that had the same or smaller image than someone elses 15 inch model. That WOULD have been deceptive, but that was NEVER the case. There was no deception of any kind.
The addition of the viewable area was "nice", but hardly informative to the point of preventing any kind of percieved fraud.
Sigh, don't make me get out the Clue by Four on you.
"Polls" are more often than not specifically sponserd by people that want to prove a point and so they specifically choose who to poll to get the results they want. If the poll doesn't come out they way they want, they bury it and try something else. If it turns out the way they want, then they have PROOF that the story is true. (bullshit)
The biggest problem we have today is people that look at a single source and believe everything they hear from it without trying to check up on the stories.
Ahem... *koff* SLASHdot *koff*
True, but those low end 1 gig processors are DIRT cheap and you can of course underclock them in the BIOS yourself to whatever you want! If you truly don't need the CPU horesepower and want to save on Electricity/fan noise, clock that 1 gig whatever to 200 Mhz! Easy!
Your hand, and that "in your mouth" story reminds me of that Darwin Award wannabe that actually SWALLOWED liquid nitrogen based on remembering wrong about the "in your mouth" trick. He wrote up a great article about all the damage and surgery required to fix that little mistake :)
See this is just wrong. Who the hell cares if it was valid HTML or not? It should just work! We run into this all the time with our TIFF and PS printing software. 90% of all TIFF an PS files in existance violate the Tiff and PS specs in some way. And guess what? WE HAVE TO STILL PRINT IT CORRECTLY!!!! If we wrote to the TIFF and PS specs and FU to all our customers that complain about us not printing what they saw on the screen in InDesign or what ever app they were printing from, we'd be completely out of buisness by now.
Until Mozilla/Netscape can properly render "broken" IE formatted webpages, it has NO HOPE of taking over market share. I personally won't use it for that specific reason. And I bet that most people using a web browser are a lot more interested in whether it works, rather than some lofty moral superiority it exudes.
Get off your high horses and do what the rest of us have to do. Make software that works dammit! Be pragmatic for once. Geez.
You might not feel the same if you actually MADE anything and tried to make a living by SELLING it only to realize that 95% of the people using your product STOLE it. This sort of thing helps and protects smaller companies and individual producers a lot more that large corperations. They can take a large hit and reamin in buisness. The small 20 person teams (Of which I belong to 2) can't.
Well I just bought the 2002 version and it contains a full version of Word 2002. So whatever bastard thing you go with your laptop is not representative of the current state of the universe.
u ctInfo_WorksSu ite2002.asp
Here's a little real information:
http://works.msn.com/HomePages/Prod
Typical slash(and burn) attitude.
The p4 SSE2 instructions are an OPPOURTUNITY for software companies to kick ass. A small amount of optimization on a codec can quadruple your performance. Who wouldn't do that? Who wouldn't also do it for both P4 and AMD. It's pretty simple to create CPU specific engine libraries that take advantage of various archetectures.
Video encoding and reatime editing still suffer from CPUs being AT LEAST 10x too slow. Realtime 3D has also got a LONG way to go to be able to render photorealistic billion poly scenes with 5 mile horizons in real time. 3 Ghz is NOTHING.
Course if all you do all day is web surf and iChat, then I guess none of that means anything to you...
Lets take hard drives as an example. By your logic, by now you should be able to buy, say, a new 1 gig hard drive for $5. In reality, it doesn't matter much at all what the drive capacity is. It costs $50 to manfac a hard drive. You can't manfac a drive for $50 then sell it for $5 just because it's only one gig in size. There is an absolute minimum charge that the manufacturer has to charge to stay in buisness. This is true for CPUs, MB's, Cases, CDROMs, everything.
So you are right, we have reached a price plateu (actually a price valley). We've reached the minimum possible price for manufacturing all the parts necessary to build a computer. (THat seems to be about $300, without a monitor for a general purpose PC machine) The parts just continuously get better, but the lowest end prices are not going to fall from where they are now.
You mean somethng like this?
c fm ?TID=288
http://www.ecoworld.org/Air/articles/articles2.
Took less than a minute to look up on google. Probably less time than to type in your question to slashdot.
Cuz if it wasn't we'd all be blind and sterile right now.
It would if the database(s) is(are) irreparably corrupted or otherwise compromoised. Then there is nothing left to count at all. Far far worse than what happened in florida.
Yes but as the old addage goes. To REALLY screw something up, you need a computer.
Computerized voting is a terrible idea. It introduces thousands of potential problems into a system that was already having problems with the simple concept of a pin and a punch card. It fixes nothing, it puts at risk everything. This is an ill conceived knee-jerk reaction to a problem thout could have easily and cheaply been fixed in place. A problem that existed in only ONE place out thousands in the US.
Or the 5 dollar video card driver they decided to install. The proper selection of quality hardware/driver software is just as important as anything else. Linux drivers that are compiled into the kernel B(lack)SOD linux just like windows drivers that live in Ring 0 do. Care must be taken at all levels for the building of these machines.
But given the nearly random outcome of all "trials" in any country. You have to be willing to shell out the money yourself, no matter how right you know you are.
Yeah, well. Quake ][ looked amazing for it's day, but after playing about 1/3 of it all the great graphics dissapeared and I was left with was nothing of interest. The monsters were all the same, the rooms all looked the same. No interest, no story, no progression == quick boredom. It was no wonder that Quake ]|[ came out with no single player. Id forgot how to make an interesting single player game. Now there is hope for Doom |||. Except we are already seeing signs of there not being a coherent story and the dissapointment is settling in for those of us that want at least a little adventure with our stunning graphics.
In fact graphics take a back seat to good game play every time. Most fun 3d shooters I've played were all done on slightly older engine tech. The company focused on the game play, not the engine. Though the combination of jaw cropping graphics WITH great gameplay is far better still. But the gameplay quality in the end always wins out in my book.
Well just have to wait and see though. I still hope to be pleasantly suprised.
Of course most of the free development tools available for Linux are also available for windows as well. If that was good enough all of a sudden, then all they REALLY saved moving to Linux was the cost of a single windows seat. About $120 for workstation pro on volume (or even smart single) licensing costs. And that only on NEW machines since they already had the licenses to begin with.
Yeah, looks like Slashdot has Slashdoted itself today. Karma I guess.
Because you run Linux, you could not have even participated in the act of obtaining or using DRM music AT ALL. And as soon as you CAN do it on Linux you will have the SAME problems.
I use Windows and have thousands of mp3s and avis and have no such problem because I have not participated in any DRM contracts.
Running Linux or running Windows has NOTHING to do with participating in DRM contracts or not. (Except that on Linux you don't even have the choice).
Don't take a debate on the merits or detriments of DRM and turn it into a window vs Linux thing because it's NOT.
They aren't I was just about to post a diatribe about how /. was turning into a modders forum now myself! :)