Actually your one of the many. Something frequently overlooked here is the fact that when someone is happy with something they are far less likely to say so than when they are unhappy. Two reasons: #1 When your happy or content with something the urge to "shout" about it is far less than when you feel you've been screwed. #2 Saying you actually like something makes you vunerable. I.e. If I said I really like Windows, (And I do) I'd be open to attack here. So I just don't say it. Theres a very strong air of fear about saying the "wrong" thing here and a lot of other forums.
One bad experience in 500 is enough to get enough people screaming "cable sucks" or "DSL Sucks" that everyone starts believing it. "Well my cable has been good, I must be lucky cuz it sounds like every other person that has it says it sucks".
Occasionally though an article like this comes out and in a rare glimse of the truth, people actually come out en-masse and state their true feelings for something. So far most of the responses to DSL and Cable have been positive as I think most users are content. I've had cable now for 5-6 years and until very recently it's been steller. (There's some king of routing problem between SD and LA that's causing some problems now, but I still get 100kb/sec on a good site, far above the 20-25k of a modem.)
And just to pull some numbers out of my ass. I think that for every negative comment about something you see there is probably another person that feels the same way but doesn't say so. But for every positive comment about something, there is probably 100 other people that agree but don't say so. (Atleast on "controverial" subjects like DSL and Cable)
I'll second that and add that our macs here crash daily. And a crashed mac app almost always requires a reboot. And if you dare coding on a mac, plan on rebooting about 50 times a day. Ugh:( Our windows and linux servers are about equal in uptime. The development windows and linux boxes are also about equal. (End user windows machines are terrible, but noone here cares to try to prevent the users from installing any old app and adspam screen saver they find on the net ) But the Macs, oh boy. I acutally believe a lot of the hype in absense of fact, but personally dealing with Mac development and use has done nothing but remove every last vestige of respect I ever had for the platform.
Heh, If I ever said anything like this at work I'd get a "Are you afraid to code" out of my boss...
Systems are getting more complex and demands on them get more complex. People have to plan harder and think harder to keep up. It's time to step up to the plate or go home. Years ago Linux didn't need a VM that worked with 4 way SMP and 2 Gig of ram. Today it does.
Claiming that modularity is (I'm paraphrasing) "too hard" comes off more as a cop-out than a reason. If it's hard, do a better job at it. I don't think anyone is claiming that the VM should only take a weekend to do... They just want it done and done right. The argument FOR modularity put forth above is a solid one. Whatever planning/archeteting/coding/testing and debugging that takes. Just do it[tm].
Actually in the US I have heard the term "Software" used a lot to describe content. DVDs, Video tapes, CD etc. I used to go to a consumer software convention in Vegas. 90% of the people there were movie/music/tv entertainment publishers. The VCR is hardware and the video tape is software. The DVD player is hardware and a DVD is ??? Right, software. Outside the confines of the computer centric circles. Computer software is referred to as "Computer Software" not "Software".
Actually it was probably done to AVOID litigation. Remeber the black people on the "monkey bars" incident? When random searches done by a search engine turn up unfortunate results that humans then interpret as being evil, lawsuits emerge:( So they may now be trying to actually catch such things before they offend any one. It sucks, but people suck worse when they can't tell the difference between accidental and purposeful offense and immediately whip out their lawyers from their hip pockets.
You are rushing to judgement. It's not "optimised" it's vistually crippled to gain scores in benchmarks. At the same quality the 8500 runs SLOWER than a $99 ti-200 in Q3.
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/radeonquack/default.asp
They are not "Optimised" for quake 3. The image quality is seriously suffering to gain performance. This is purely wrong. When I set textures to be 32 bit in a game that's what I mean. If I want faster I'll set them to 16 thank you, I don't need my driver doing it for me (Note that that was just one of 3 cheats used)
How will they be the envy of their windows friends? There have been at least 2 HD based MP3 players/data storage units out for windows for over a year. Today is the day that mac people stop envying windows users as far as I can tell...
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Further, TrollTech is activly hostile to the idea of shareware. A method that students and graduates often use to earn a little extra money. Having had a shareware program of my own keep me in computer parts for 8 years and wanting to port to mac/linux I looked into Troll and was agast at the prices they charge for "commercial" software and even more agast at the fact that they specifically call out "Shareware" as a totally unworkable software model, which they will never support.
wxWindows is not quite as professional as QT and last time I tried the mac port it was severely trailing the windows/linux port (About a year ago). But at least there's hope for people that both don't want to be starving for the rest of their life or have to be MS itself to afford their commercial lisence fees.
Or for that matter, why not Windows? I used WaveLab, Cubase and Reason on Win2k and XP to compose and master an album and they performed flawlessly on what today would be considered the lowest end hardware you could possibly buy.
I frequently find people making statements like "I'm growing to dislike Windows and I don't want to go MAC" based mainly on trying to run software like Cubase or Reason or T-Racks on 5 year old windows/mac boxes and complaining about latency an stability. When it comes right down to it you find that they have 25 tray/init programs running on a computer computer that is lower than speced for the software. Switching from Windows to Mac or vise-versa usually fixes all their problems. But why? Because it always involves buying a new machine with a new OS install. Has nothing to do with the OS itself.
Installs require a little maintenence now and then (Get rid of all those inits!) and sooner or later you will find that your 5 year old machine can't load 20 of the latest software synths and maintain 2ms latency.
All kindz of musicians have great experience with the pro music software/hardware on both windows and mac. Both seem to be equally capable at this point (Except OS/X for the short term anyway). Now if all the current software were ported to Linux and more than one or two card vendors jump over, well then it'll do fine too. But right now, virtually all the hardware/software is for Windows/Mac.
Use the tools that are available! Any "Sound Engineer" that cares more about what OS they're running than what tools (SW/HW) they need is no real "Sound Engineer":(
No, they don't. Ever. HP and Apple obviously think that this change of heart will benefit them. I don't know how it will or won't. But I can assure you that was the only reason for making the descision. Sometimes "People will like us more and maybe buy more X from us" is the reason. Sometimes "It will make us money in royalties" is the reason. Whatever it is, it is always made with what seems to be the best interest of the company at the time. If it happens to be the right thing then they look good, if not, they look evil. But BEING good or evil is NEVER a reason for a company to make a descision. Those traits are thrust upon them by outside watchers.
ID cards are NOT needed. 9 of the hijackers were here legally in the US with all proper papers, passports, IDs etc. We know exatly who they were(now). How does an ID let you know who is a terrorist before they strike?
That is all 100% false. The participation in DRM by artists is optional. Did you know know that it is also possible produce DVDs WITHOUT reageon encoding? I even have one! Legally bought too, not pirated. This is the same tired argument that went on about the V-Chip taking away everyones rights. It is the parent descision to participate or not. The DRM and SSSCA provide away for people who WANT to take advantage of it to do so. I'm not even arguing if that's a good thing or not. But it does nothing to prevent garage bands from distributing their music any way they want (Maybe some of them will even welcome it). These things prevent music that is so marked as No Copy to not be copied.
Time to come out of the basement and smell the roses. Your seriously bordering on a conspiricy delusion here. (I don't think it was brought up on/. but it turns out that that "secret meeting" story about all the extra "User will be killed by lethal injection on the spot" crap by RIAA turned out to be a complete hoax, The Register was big enough to admit their mistake, not so/.)
I could just as easily say that DRM will increase innovation! As the music "industry" tightens it's grip, more and more small bands will get greater exposure through places like ampcast.com, garageband.com and javamusic.com
More exposure of more bands leads to more musical innovation. And it's happening now! The great part about (the old) mp3.com was not the commercial music but the independant music service it offered. And those types of services are springing up like mushrooms over the last year or so.
Ever been to mp3.com? ampcast.com? javamusic.com? Those "everybodies" you talk about back when weren't all on the radio either. It was just a social pastime. We have different social pastimes now (IRC?). However anyone that is still interested in music personally, rather than being pursuaded into it for social reasons has PLENTY of oppourtunity to get into it. And even MORE oppourtunity to get their music out to the public than ever before./. is almost a completely glass half enpty crowd. Though sometimes the glass really is also half full!
Unfortunately there are so many features that are so slowly coming out, we here are often FORCED to use the bleed edge kernel just to get USB support for a device that we HAVE to use on a project. Or to fix a bug in an older release that has features that the stable doesn't. If it were JUST efficiency fixes then I'd say to hell with the bleeding edge. The fact though is some people NEED the bleeding edge because even that will only barely do what they need a lot of the time.
Why in the world would this be? Are you saying that those compilers are being changed to accomodate kernel hacks? Or is the kernel code taking advantage of compiler hacks? I know that gcc has some terrible and dangerous hacks like allowing runtime variable length arrays on the stack. Is the kernel using them? This would seem like a very detrimental situation if so.
CO2 is THE greenhouse gas. (Yes there are others, but CO2 is by far the biggest output). CO2 output is a hundred times greater today than just a few decades ago. Raising the temperature of the earth will be mankinds greatest ecological disaster. And the final output of the combustion of propane, methanol, fuel cells and several other "clean" systems almost always output CO2 as a waste product. In order for ANY energy source to be able to claim that it is "clean" it cannot produce any CO2. Just because we drink it in our sodas doesn't mean we can just say "Oh, CO2 and water as the waste product, it's perfectly clean!".
Perhaps you aren't aware that CO2 is perhaps the worst pollutant the world is now facing? It's effect on the planet is worse that all the nuclear radiation, DDT or anything else we've released into the eco system combined?
1) The gas bags were pure hydrogen, not hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen in large mass does NOT explode! A 2:1 ratio of well mixed hydrogen to oxygen is required for an explosion. Therefore the outside of the ball of hydrogen gas will burn relatively slowly as oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere becomes available to it.
2) It stayed a loft because the hydrogen burned slowly because of #1
3)So the fabric wasn't fireproof. Big suprise 60 years ago. In fact I wouldn't dispute that the fabric may have actualy started the fire! But that doesn't mean that carrying that load of hydrogen gas wasn't adding extreme danger to the situation.
4) Balls of burning hydrogen do make a dirty orange fireball. Only a pure 2:1 H and O ratio without any other substances or gasses produces the relatively invisible flame you mention.
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Actually your one of the many. Something frequently overlooked here is the fact that when someone is happy with something they are far less likely to say so than when they are unhappy. Two reasons: #1 When your happy or content with something the urge to "shout" about it is far less than when you feel you've been screwed. #2 Saying you actually like something makes you vunerable. I.e. If I said I really like Windows, (And I do) I'd be open to attack here. So I just don't say it. Theres a very strong air of fear about saying the "wrong" thing here and a lot of other forums.
One bad experience in 500 is enough to get enough people screaming "cable sucks" or "DSL Sucks" that everyone starts believing it. "Well my cable has been good, I must be lucky cuz it sounds like every other person that has it says it sucks".
Occasionally though an article like this comes out and in a rare glimse of the truth, people actually come out en-masse and state their true feelings for something. So far most of the responses to DSL and Cable have been positive as I think most users are content. I've had cable now for 5-6 years and until very recently it's been steller. (There's some king of routing problem between SD and LA that's causing some problems now, but I still get 100kb/sec on a good site, far above the 20-25k of a modem.)
And just to pull some numbers out of my ass. I think that for every negative comment about something you see there is probably another person that feels the same way but doesn't say so. But for every positive comment about something, there is probably 100 other people that agree but don't say so. (Atleast on "controverial" subjects like DSL and Cable)
I'll second that and add that our macs here crash daily. And a crashed mac app almost always requires a reboot. And if you dare coding on a mac, plan on rebooting about 50 times a day. Ugh :( Our windows and linux servers are about equal in uptime. The development windows and linux boxes are also about equal. (End user windows machines are terrible, but noone here cares to try to prevent the users from installing any old app and adspam screen saver they find on the net ) But the Macs, oh boy. I acutally believe a lot of the hype in absense of fact, but personally dealing with Mac development and use has done nothing but remove every last vestige of respect I ever had for the platform.
Heh, If I ever said anything like this at work I'd get a "Are you afraid to code" out of my boss...
Systems are getting more complex and demands on them get more complex. People have to plan harder and think harder to keep up. It's time to step up to the plate or go home. Years ago Linux didn't need a VM that worked with 4 way SMP and 2 Gig of ram. Today it does.
Claiming that modularity is (I'm paraphrasing) "too hard" comes off more as a cop-out than a reason. If it's hard, do a better job at it. I don't think anyone is claiming that the VM should only take a weekend to do... They just want it done and done right. The argument FOR modularity put forth above is a solid one. Whatever planning/archeteting/coding/testing and debugging that takes. Just do it[tm].
Unlike the oh so UNsubtle FUD about Windows you get from here right? :)
Actually in the US I have heard the term "Software" used a lot to describe content. DVDs, Video tapes, CD etc. I used to go to a consumer software convention in Vegas. 90% of the people there were movie/music/tv entertainment publishers. The VCR is hardware and the video tape is software. The DVD player is hardware and a DVD is ??? Right, software. Outside the confines of the computer centric circles. Computer software is referred to as "Computer Software" not "Software".
Please mod parent down. It is anti-"Informative". Spreading this kind of FUD/Misinformation is conter productive.
Actually it was probably done to AVOID litigation. Remeber the black people on the "monkey bars" incident? When random searches done by a search engine turn up unfortunate results that humans then interpret as being evil, lawsuits emerge :( So they may now be trying to actually catch such things before they offend any one. It sucks, but people suck worse when they can't tell the difference between accidental and purposeful offense and immediately whip out their lawyers from their hip pockets.
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You are rushing to judgement. It's not "optimised" it's vistually crippled to gain scores in benchmarks. At the same quality the 8500 runs SLOWER than a $99 ti-200 in Q3.
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/radeonquack /default.asp
They are not "Optimised" for quake 3. The image quality is seriously suffering to gain performance. This is purely wrong. When I set textures to be 32 bit in a game that's what I mean. If I want faster I'll set them to 16 thank you, I don't need my driver doing it for me (Note that that was just one of 3 cheats used)
How will they be the envy of their windows friends? There have been at least 2 HD based MP3 players/data storage units out for windows for over a year. Today is the day that mac people stop envying windows users as far as I can tell...
Further, TrollTech is activly hostile to the idea of shareware. A method that students and graduates often use to earn a little extra money. Having had a shareware program of my own keep me in computer parts for 8 years and wanting to port to mac/linux I looked into Troll and was agast at the prices they charge for "commercial" software and even more agast at the fact that they specifically call out "Shareware" as a totally unworkable software model, which they will never support.
wxWindows is not quite as professional as QT and last time I tried the mac port it was severely trailing the windows/linux port (About a year ago). But at least there's hope for people that both don't want to be starving for the rest of their life or have to be MS itself to afford their commercial lisence fees.
Or for that matter, why not Windows? I used WaveLab, Cubase and Reason on Win2k and XP to compose and master an album and they performed flawlessly on what today would be considered the lowest end hardware you could possibly buy.
:(
I frequently find people making statements like "I'm growing to dislike Windows and I don't want to go MAC" based mainly on trying to run software like Cubase or Reason or T-Racks on 5 year old windows/mac boxes and complaining about latency an stability. When it comes right down to it you find that they have 25 tray/init programs running on a computer computer that is lower than speced for the software. Switching from Windows to Mac or vise-versa usually fixes all their problems. But why? Because it always involves buying a new machine with a new OS install. Has nothing to do with the OS itself.
Installs require a little maintenence now and then (Get rid of all those inits!) and sooner or later you will find that your 5 year old machine can't load 20 of the latest software synths and maintain 2ms latency.
All kindz of musicians have great experience with the pro music software/hardware on both windows and mac. Both seem to be equally capable at this point (Except OS/X for the short term anyway). Now if all the current software were ported to Linux and more than one or two card vendors jump over, well then it'll do fine too. But right now, virtually all the hardware/software is for Windows/Mac.
Use the tools that are available! Any "Sound Engineer" that cares more about what OS they're running than what tools (SW/HW) they need is no real "Sound Engineer"
No, they don't. Ever. HP and Apple obviously think that this change of heart will benefit them. I don't know how it will or won't. But I can assure you that was the only reason for making the descision. Sometimes "People will like us more and maybe buy more X from us" is the reason. Sometimes "It will make us money in royalties" is the reason. Whatever it is, it is always made with what seems to be the best interest of the company at the time. If it happens to be the right thing then they look good, if not, they look evil. But BEING good or evil is NEVER a reason for a company to make a descision. Those traits are thrust upon them by outside watchers.
ID cards are NOT needed. 9 of the hijackers were here legally in the US with all proper papers, passports, IDs etc. We know exatly who they were(now). How does an ID let you know who is a terrorist before they strike?
It doesn't, it can't and it never will.
Er, because maybe I have over 600 CDs? :)
That is all 100% false. The participation in DRM by artists is optional. Did you know know that it is also possible produce DVDs WITHOUT reageon encoding? I even have one! Legally bought too, not pirated. This is the same tired argument that went on about the V-Chip taking away everyones rights. It is the parent descision to participate or not. The DRM and SSSCA provide away for people who WANT to take advantage of it to do so. I'm not even arguing if that's a good thing or not. But it does nothing to prevent garage bands from distributing their music any way they want (Maybe some of them will even welcome it). These things prevent music that is so marked as No Copy to not be copied.
/. but it turns out that that "secret meeting" story about all the extra "User will be killed by lethal injection on the spot" crap by RIAA turned out to be a complete hoax, The Register was big enough to admit their mistake, not so /.)
Time to come out of the basement and smell the roses. Your seriously bordering on a conspiricy delusion here. (I don't think it was brought up on
I could just as easily say that DRM will increase innovation! As the music "industry" tightens it's grip, more and more small bands will get greater exposure through places like ampcast.com, garageband.com and javamusic.com
More exposure of more bands leads to more musical innovation. And it's happening now! The great part about (the old) mp3.com was not the commercial music but the independant music service it offered. And those types of services are springing up like mushrooms over the last year or so.
Ever been to mp3.com? ampcast.com? javamusic.com? Those "everybodies" you talk about back when weren't all on the radio either. It was just a social pastime. We have different social pastimes now (IRC?). However anyone that is still interested in music personally, rather than being pursuaded into it for social reasons has PLENTY of oppourtunity to get into it. And even MORE oppourtunity to get their music out to the public than ever before. /. is almost a completely glass half enpty crowd. Though sometimes the glass really is also half full!
Unfortunately there are so many features that are so slowly coming out, we here are often FORCED to use the bleed edge kernel just to get USB support for a device that we HAVE to use on a project. Or to fix a bug in an older release that has features that the stable doesn't. If it were JUST efficiency fixes then I'd say to hell with the bleeding edge. The fact though is some people NEED the bleeding edge because even that will only barely do what they need a lot of the time.
Why in the world would this be? Are you saying that those compilers are being changed to accomodate kernel hacks? Or is the kernel code taking advantage of compiler hacks? I know that gcc has some terrible and dangerous hacks like allowing runtime variable length arrays on the stack. Is the kernel using them? This would seem like a very detrimental situation if so.
CO2 is THE greenhouse gas. (Yes there are others, but CO2 is by far the biggest output). CO2 output is a hundred times greater today than just a few decades ago. Raising the temperature of the earth will be mankinds greatest ecological disaster. And the final output of the combustion of propane, methanol, fuel cells and several other "clean" systems almost always output CO2 as a waste product. In order for ANY energy source to be able to claim that it is "clean" it cannot produce any CO2. Just because we drink it in our sodas doesn't mean we can just say "Oh, CO2 and water as the waste product, it's perfectly clean!".
Perhaps you aren't aware that CO2 is perhaps the worst pollutant the world is now facing? It's effect on the planet is worse that all the nuclear radiation, DDT or anything else we've released into the eco system combined?
1) The gas bags were pure hydrogen, not hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen in large mass does NOT explode! A 2:1 ratio of well mixed hydrogen to oxygen is required for an explosion. Therefore the outside of the ball of hydrogen gas will burn relatively slowly as oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere becomes available to it.
2) It stayed a loft because the hydrogen burned slowly because of #1
3)So the fabric wasn't fireproof. Big suprise 60 years ago. In fact I wouldn't dispute that the fabric may have actualy started the fire! But that doesn't mean that carrying that load of hydrogen gas wasn't adding extreme danger to the situation.
4) Balls of burning hydrogen do make a dirty orange fireball. Only a pure 2:1 H and O ratio without any other substances or gasses produces the relatively invisible flame you mention.
No one has to actually try the test themselves to see that the test was completely rigged. :(
Let's not forget brief! It was a kick ass editor for DOS way back when. And I'd still rather use it than vi any day.