The gig = 1 billion bytes isn't an Apple thing; it's standard practice for describing hard drive capacities. It's lame, but not Apple's invention.
5GB as defined by HD manufacturers is 4.65GB according to normal people. That's 4.65GB of unformatted capacity. The desktop database isn't big enough to make a noticable difference, but there is also filesystem overhead to take into account.
This is lame, and misleading, but Apple isn't the only one to blame here.
You clearly didn't read the article. By editing the executable to transform internal references from "quake" to "quack", these "optimizations" can be disabled. This isn't a case of working extra hard to make sure the quake3 engine runs efficiently, it appears to be a case of detecting the most common benchmark and tweaking things to up the framerate at the expense of visual quality.
At my last place I ordered ION. 9 months later, they started billing us, never having actually installed it. During an unrelated conversation with a corporate sales guy at Sprint, I asked about residential ION and he appologized; sounded really embarassed.
Congratulations, sir, on a fine FP. You should, however, have been more self-confident; hedging bets by calling second or third post may seem "safer", but the overall result is much poorer.
There's a paper, Audio Latency Measurements of Desktop Operating Systems, which might give you some useful information. Mac OS X's CoreAudio provided the most consistant latencies regardless of loads, although a suitably patched Linux 2.4 kernel has better latencies under no-load conditions.
"All of the current desktop operating systems offer
excellent latency performance under some conditions,
though most of them cannot deliver this performance in all
situations. This is a substantial improvement over previous
results (Brandt and Dannenberg 1998; Freed, Chaudhary,
and Davila 1997), but because of the inconsistency of the
results more improvement is necessary before reliable low-latency
performance can be expected from desktop
operating systems.
"In conclusion, Linux showed the best performance in the
tests without load while MacOS X showed the best
performance in the tests with load. Windows and MacOS 8
and 9 produced some of the best results when using a
professional soundcard with the ASIO API but showed poor
performance when using the standard APIs and consumer-grade
soundcards."
If good and evil aren't relative, then you'd think someone could come up with a better method of asserting that their personal views on the subject are correct than using force against those who disagree.
The usual cop-out is to simply claim that those who believe differently do so intentionally due to moral bankruptcy and "know the truth in their hearts."
The term "effective protection" is specifically defined elsewhere in the statue.
Sec 1201(3)(b) [As used in this subsection--] a technological measure `effectively controls access to a work' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
It's not a "Patch to Photoshop" which allows multiprocessing on the Mac OS, but rather usage of the Multiprocessor Services API. Any application can spawn a thread to be scheduled preemptively among however many processors are on the system. While it's true that the main system event loop (think message pump) is restricted to the main processor, these MP threads can execute network and disk IO. It's not as nice as SMP, but it's not the hack the ill-informed author of the article seems to think it is.
To what, exactly, will your hardware human be behaviorally identical? Other humans? Even wetware humans aren't behaviorally identical to one another.
Absent a conclusive test for consciousness, how will you know that your hardware human is simulating most of my behavior, but is lacking some accuracy in the simulation of my brain causing the simulation not to be conscious? I believe that there is no way to know such a thing.
With humans you can at least assume, based on behavioral and pysiological similarity, that consciousness is present, fairly safely.
Unless you want to grant consciousness-status to everything, in which case the problem is already solved, you still need to answer how you will know when you have created it successfully.
You're the one who suggested replicating consciousness. I want to know we'll know when we've done it.
What happens when you use that tag to switch to a character encoding in which "" means something else? What happens when you want to search through a document for text, the literal bytes of which match completely unrelated text in a different encoding within the same document?
Slashdot serves pages as "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
Under that encoding, your Japanese text looks like: [227: small a, tilde] [129: out of range] [170: feminine ordinal] [227: small a, tilde] [129:out of range] [171: left guillemot] [239: small i, dieresis] [188: fraction one fourth] [159: out of range] instead of [\u306a: HIRAGANA LETTER NA] [\u306b: HIRAGANA LETTER NI][\uff1f: FULLWIDTH QUESTION MARK]
Your browser is playing games with you if it's displaying text marked as iso-8859-1 as utf-8 without user intervention. It "works fine" only on browsers which second-guess the charset field.
Do you actually confirm these "opt in" entries or are you with one of those places that assumes that an email address given during an order counts as "subscribing" or adds people to your list based on a web form without confirmation?
There are any number of extended ASCII character sets. ISO Latin-1, but there are many others; any of the ISO Latins, The DOS extended ascii set, the Mac OS character set. Hence "Many in fact"
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But how much do you want to bet I'll get modded down for my question?
"Marcelo, are you circumcised?"
A child? Why should we be subsidizing population expansion?
Just do it in base 3, then it's easy:
1
10
100
1000
10000
...
The gig = 1 billion bytes isn't an Apple thing; it's standard practice for describing hard drive capacities. It's lame, but not Apple's invention.
5GB as defined by HD manufacturers is 4.65GB according to normal people. That's 4.65GB of unformatted capacity. The desktop database isn't big enough to make a noticable difference, but there is also filesystem overhead to take into account.
This is lame, and misleading, but Apple isn't the only one to blame here.
You clearly didn't read the article. By editing the executable to transform internal references from "quake" to "quack", these "optimizations" can be disabled. This isn't a case of working extra hard to make sure the quake3 engine runs efficiently, it appears to be a case of detecting the most common benchmark and tweaking things to up the framerate at the expense of visual quality.
At my last place I ordered ION. 9 months later, they started billing us, never having actually installed it. During an unrelated conversation with a corporate sales guy at Sprint, I asked about residential ION and he appologized; sounded really embarassed.
Congratulations, sir, on a fine FP. You should, however, have been more self-confident; hedging bets by calling second or third post may seem "safer", but the overall result is much poorer.
Still, excellent effort.
Dude, pull my finger.
There's a paper, Audio Latency Measurements of Desktop Operating Systems, which might give you some useful information. Mac OS X's CoreAudio provided the most consistant latencies regardless of loads, although a suitably patched Linux 2.4 kernel has better latencies under no-load conditions.
"All of the current desktop operating systems offer excellent latency performance under some conditions, though most of them cannot deliver this performance in all situations. This is a substantial improvement over previous results (Brandt and Dannenberg 1998; Freed, Chaudhary, and Davila 1997), but because of the inconsistency of the results more improvement is necessary before reliable low-latency performance can be expected from desktop operating systems.
"In conclusion, Linux showed the best performance in the tests without load while MacOS X showed the best performance in the tests with load. Windows and MacOS 8 and 9 produced some of the best results when using a professional soundcard with the ASIO API but showed poor performance when using the standard APIs and consumer-grade soundcards."
If only there were some sort of device which could store electrical power for later use.
Or is that free as in "Free Clinic"?
If good and evil aren't relative, then you'd think someone could come up with a better method of asserting that their personal views on the subject are correct than using force against those who disagree.
The usual cop-out is to simply claim that those who believe differently do so intentionally due to moral bankruptcy and "know the truth in their hearts."
To me that says they should have cancelled the usenet article, not the alleged uploader's account.
Careful, the fumes might give you lung cancer..
The term "effective protection" is specifically defined elsewhere in the statue.
Sec 1201(3)(b) [As used in this subsection--] a technological measure `effectively controls access to a work' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Meeting of the minds; what, their EULA dialog boxes are sentient now?
It's not a "Patch to Photoshop" which allows multiprocessing on the Mac OS, but rather usage of the Multiprocessor Services API. Any application can spawn a thread to be scheduled preemptively among however many processors are on the system. While it's true that the main system event loop (think message pump) is restricted to the main processor, these MP threads can execute network and disk IO. It's not as nice as SMP, but it's not the hack the ill-informed author of the article seems to think it is.
To what, exactly, will your hardware human be behaviorally identical? Other humans? Even wetware humans aren't behaviorally identical to one another.
Absent a conclusive test for consciousness, how will you know that your hardware human is simulating most of my behavior, but is lacking some accuracy in the simulation of my brain causing the simulation not to be conscious? I believe that there is no way to know such a thing.
With humans you can at least assume, based on behavioral and pysiological similarity, that consciousness is present, fairly safely.
Unless you want to grant consciousness-status to everything, in which case the problem is already solved, you still need to answer how you will know when you have created it successfully.
You're the one who suggested replicating consciousness. I want to know we'll know when we've done it.
What hardware manufacturers are dedicated to making Vorbis players?
Interactive Objects, for one. They're the ones who designed the OS for the Hip Zip, among other things.
What happens when you use that tag to switch to a character encoding in which "" means something else? What happens when you want to search through a document for text, the literal bytes of which match completely unrelated text in a different encoding within the same document?
Slashdot serves pages as "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
Under that encoding, your Japanese text looks like: [227: small a, tilde] [129: out of range] [170: feminine ordinal] [227: small a, tilde] [129:out of range] [171: left guillemot] [239: small i, dieresis] [188: fraction one fourth] [159: out of range] instead of [\u306a: HIRAGANA LETTER NA] [\u306b: HIRAGANA LETTER NI][\uff1f: FULLWIDTH QUESTION MARK]
Your browser is playing games with you if it's displaying text marked as iso-8859-1 as utf-8 without user intervention. It "works fine" only on browsers which second-guess the charset field.
Suppose you think you've created consciousness. How could you know?
Do you actually confirm these "opt in" entries or are you with one of those places that assumes that an email address given during an order counts as "subscribing" or adds people to your list based on a web form without confirmation?
There are any number of extended ASCII character sets. ISO Latin-1, but there are many others; any of the ISO Latins, The DOS extended ascii set, the Mac OS character set. Hence "Many in fact"