I use dBpowerAmp and keep my music in the mp3 and FLAC formats. If I get music as a WMA or maybe buy it from iTunes (only did it once because a 128kbit mp4 isn't my idea of quality audio), I convert it immediately to one of those ubiquitous formats. There are codecs available for every major audio format out there, and the dBpowerAmp preserves all the id tag information. The beauty of the app is that as long as you have the codecs, you can always convert your music to whatever format you need.
Your computer will probably saturate data transfer over the wires and max out a magnetic drive's performance long before your CPU spends a noticable amount of time issuing disk commands. Most of the delays that people experience come from waiting for the disk to complete I/O transfers rather than from having a slow CPU.
This is true... and largely irrelevant to the end user. At least those I/O constrained users with dual core machines can easily switch over to their web browser, or email application, or whatever, while they're waiting for their disk-bound app to start responding again. As it stands now, those with single cpu setups (neither dual-core, nor DP) are stuck with a zombie machine until it snaps back to life. Very annoying.
Every time I see a Dodge commercial for some HEMI-powered truck, I think "Oooh, it's got a HEMI. That must mean it's better than my poor HEMI-less Chevy." Do I know what the hell HEMI even means? Not at all. Which is why I'll have to ask one of my car-nut friends if I ever (god forbid) truck shopping.
Why wait?
The term 'Hemi' is short for 'hemispherical', which describes the shape of the cylinder head's combustion chamber. From Wikipedia:
The chamber design puts the intake/exhaust valves in-line, rather than side-by-side, allowing for better flow of air through the head. The spark plug in the center of the chamber makes for better ignition of the fuel/air mixture. These aspects help make the hemi-type engine more efficient and powerful.
The hemispherical cylinder head increases the engine's efficiency through reduced thermal energy loss and increased airflow through the engine, but drawbacks such as increased production cost has meant that it has been a rare design.
Actually there was a high end Acrobat server they had on Linux years ago. It did lots of cool stuff IIRC but started out @ around $5,000.00 per seat. They did not have a demo available for download then and I dunno if it still exists.
A desktop computer can be purchased for as little as $400. A laptop computer can be purchased at a price point below $550. Linux is free. Microsoft Windows, coupled with its bundled software, must cost at least $40 per machine. So, if Linux were to be pre-loaded, the retailer could offer the device at the same price and make an additional 5% to 10% gross margin.
Anybody see the hole there? How about: what are the COSTS associated with installing and supporting an OS used by 5% of a businesses customers?
Is it the US of A's fault that it has the best politician's that money can buy, and the best lobbyists in the world to go out and buy them? Why, all that needs to be done is for the Broadband Users of America to go and hire their own lobbyists and buy their own politicians. If they won't, it's not the fault of the system.
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Do A-list movie stars have to pay to get their picture submitted? I understand the purpose for limiting photos for independent actors who use the site as an online resume; however, sometimes I don't remember a specific actor playing a certain role and I just wish that there were a picture there. Sometimes the galleries just feel empty.
If these actors are using the site as an on-line resume, $35 is a trival (tax deductable) expense, especially when you consider the potential benefit.
Check out this interview that occured on CBC's The Fifth Estate. In an example of how Ann Coulter plays fast and loose with 'facts' she knows nothing about, in order to make her point, we see how she behaves when caught in her mistake:
Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"
McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."
Coulter: "I don't think that's right."
McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."
Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?"
McKeown: "Uh no. Canada...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."
Coulter: "I think you're wrong."
McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."
Coulter: "I think you're wrong."
McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."
Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops."
McKeown: "No."
Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."
McKeown tags out in script:
"Coulter never got back to us -- but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam."
Yep, Coulter's a reporter with integrity, yessir...
I think ATI still believes that Linux is not a long-term viable gaming platform and therefore they are not coming out with linux drivers...
Well, if it was about gaming only, you might be right, but Linux is most likely a long-term viable WORKSTATION platform. Graphics/CAD/ERP professionals need good stable drivers. ATi would ignore Linux at their peril.
...is that there is only one mention of the audio quality offered by the music vendors in this article:
...although Harmony streams at 160 kbps, rather than Napster's 128 kbps, giving better sound...
Apple's mp4 is reputed to be about as good as a 160 or 192kbps mp3. So, the best audio quality offered by online music stores is what I would call barely sufficient for bubble gum pop listening on my home stereo. No thanks. I'll start buying music downloads when the vendors start offering lossless tracks.
Firefox was supposed to be more secure than IE. But exploits for both browsers are close in numbers.
I'd like to see some stats regarding actual infections. I use FF almost exclusively, and SpyBot, AdAware and MS's AntiSpyware have nothing more than tracking cookies to clean on my computers. My girlfriend insists on using IE, and I'm regularly cleaning HotBot, Alexa, et. al., off of her computer, despite the fact that I keep it fully up to date with all of Microsoft's updates. As far as I'm concerned, those exploit statistics are a complete snowjob.
"OpenSSH is an enterprise-class product that is needed for the demands of a large-scale deployment. We think OpenSSH compares very favourably to our SSH Tectia. In fact, there really is no reason for enterprise users, or any users for that matter, to purchase our SSH Tectia product."
"In 1983, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave our solar system. Until its maximum distance from Earth was exceeded in 1998, Pioneer 10 was the most distant human-made object."
The Voyager has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area,...
Nowhere did I say I was a lawyer. I simply pointed out the obvious.
Technically, Google is in massive violation of copyright.
You said you are not a lawyer, so...
Technically, by the fact that you are viewing this comment, you are violating my copyrights. I have written this comment. It is stored in a fixed and tangible form. You have copied it into your computer's memory (Mai v. Peak) to view it. I have not given you written permission to view it (which, legally, is the only kind of permission that matters).
IANAL either, but I (and my lawyer girlfriend) disagree with this entirely. You are responding in a public forum. It's an 'open letter' of sorts, and as such I, or anyone else, is allowed to view, copy or respond to it. Also, and I'm not sure what Slashdot's policy on their posts is, or what we agreed to when we registered, but it may be that in posting on this forum, you are granting Slashdot the copyright on your material. One could also think of your post as a simple letter to me, where again, I have every right to copy, view and respond to it.
I do think you raise an interesting point with regards to the cached copies of copyrighted material being stored on private computers, web caches and search engines everywhere. In these cases, the nature of the technolgy of distribution does raise and interesting question with regards to the nature and meaning of 'copying'. However, I don't see how that affects anyone's fair use rights as defined under the law. They appear to be separate to me.
Likewise, my understanding is that a private citizen couldn't scan a copyrighted book and put it on the internet without the author's express permission. That's exactly what Google is doing.
No, that is NOT what Google is doing. From the referenced link:
Let's be clear: Google doesn't show even a single page to users who find copyrighted books through this program (unless the copyright holder gives us permission to show more). At most we show only a brief snippet of text where their search term appears, along with basic bibliographic information and several links to online booksellers and libraries.
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand that this certainly falls within Fair Use under U.S. copyright law.
I don't like his idea of putting the tabs above the toolbar. His reason that the tabs function like 'separate browsing instances' doesn't wash with me. When you look at the the way tabs are implemented in FF, the current tab sort of melts into the open page, making it very clear which page the user is viewing. That kind of intuitiveness shouldn't be sacrificed.
This is an excellent point, and one not mentioned in the article.
Um, yes it was:
But ultimately, the rejection could be just what the doctor ordered. "My understanding is that if Linux Australia can't register that [Linux] as a trademark, then nobody else could either. "Our goal was to make sure the name is used in a reasonable way. If it's not possible [for anyone else] to register it as a trademark, then that has to some extent been achieved'," Oxer said. Linux Australia's other aim was to prevent the name 'Linux' from being used inaccurately, and the organisation was considering asking IP Australia to provide a written statement that there was no chance of any other organisation registering the trademark.
Did the LMI construct their case with deliberate weaknesses to assure this result?
Unlikely:
Oxer said the Linux Australia executive committee was in favour of continuing with the process, although there might be "a fairly low chance of success".
You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in.
Slashdot is a place for people to make comments about people who make comments about people who make comments that have nothing to do with the original article.
No kidding. I've had TONS of problems with Gmail, ranging from "Oops, try again later", to emails not being delivered for 17 hours +. No way should a company rely on something so flakey.
lmbench isn't testing threading; it's testing forking. These are NOT THE SAME on all *nix OSes.
True. And I think PowerBooks are cool, too... but back to the issue at hand. If you would RTFA:
" Readers also pointed out that LMBench uses "fork", which is the way to create a process and not threads in all Unix variants, including Mac OS X and Linux... The process creation is done with fork(), but fork() is nothing less than a clone() without the flags that describe the resources that must be shared. So, if you test fork() on Linux, you also get a rough idea of how fast threads are created... What about Mac OS X? Well, when the Mach kernel is asked to create a Unix process (fork()), the mach kernel creates a task (which describes the resources available) and one thread. So, thread creation time is included in the fork () benchmark of Lmbench. "
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I use dBpowerAmp and keep my music in the mp3 and FLAC formats. If I get music as a WMA or maybe buy it from iTunes (only did it once because a 128kbit mp4 isn't my idea of quality audio), I convert it immediately to one of those ubiquitous formats. There are codecs available for every major audio format out there, and the dBpowerAmp preserves all the id tag information. The beauty of the app is that as long as you have the codecs, you can always convert your music to whatever format you need.
Your computer will probably saturate data transfer over the wires and max out a magnetic drive's performance long before your CPU spends a noticable amount of time issuing disk commands. Most of the delays that people experience come from waiting for the disk to complete I/O transfers rather than from having a slow CPU.
This is true... and largely irrelevant to the end user. At least those I/O constrained users with dual core machines can easily switch over to their web browser, or email application, or whatever, while they're waiting for their disk-bound app to start responding again. As it stands now, those with single cpu setups (neither dual-core, nor DP) are stuck with a zombie machine until it snaps back to life. Very annoying.
Why wait?
The term 'Hemi' is short for 'hemispherical', which describes the shape of the cylinder head's combustion chamber. From Wikipedia:
So from where I sit, WiMAX can't be killed, because it's not alive.
But it exits, so "un-dead" might be an apt description. Zombie-MAX (Z-MAX?), anyone? *ducks*
Actually there was a high end Acrobat server they had on Linux years ago. It did lots of cool stuff IIRC but started out @ around $5,000.00 per seat. They did not have a demo available for download then and I dunno if it still exists.
It looks like it still does.
A desktop computer can be purchased for as little as $400. A laptop computer can be purchased at a price point below $550. Linux is free. Microsoft Windows, coupled with its bundled software, must cost at least $40 per machine. So, if Linux were to be pre-loaded, the retailer could offer the device at the same price and make an additional 5% to 10% gross margin.
Anybody see the hole there? How about: what are the COSTS associated with installing and supporting an OS used by 5% of a businesses customers?
Is it the US of A's fault that it has the best politician's that money can buy, and the best lobbyists in the world to go out and buy them? Why, all that needs to be done is for the Broadband Users of America to go and hire their own lobbyists and buy their own politicians. If they won't, it's not the fault of the system.
Do A-list movie stars have to pay to get their picture submitted? I understand the purpose for limiting photos for independent actors who use the site as an online resume; however, sometimes I don't remember a specific actor playing a certain role and I just wish that there were a picture there. Sometimes the galleries just feel empty.
If these actors are using the site as an on-line resume, $35 is a trival (tax deductable) expense, especially when you consider the potential benefit.
Check out this interview that occured on CBC's The Fifth Estate. In an example of how Ann Coulter plays fast and loose with 'facts' she knows nothing about, in order to make her point, we see how she behaves when caught in her mistake:
...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."
Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"
McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."
Coulter: "I don't think that's right."
McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."
Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?"
McKeown: "Uh no. Canada
Coulter: "I think you're wrong."
McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."
Coulter: "I think you're wrong."
McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."
Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops."
McKeown: "No."
Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."
McKeown tags out in script:
"Coulter never got back to us -- but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam."
Yep, Coulter's a reporter with integrity, yessir...
I think ATI still believes that Linux is not a long-term viable gaming platform and therefore they are not coming out with linux drivers...
Well, if it was about gaming only, you might be right, but Linux is most likely a long-term viable WORKSTATION platform. Graphics/CAD/ERP professionals need good stable drivers. ATi would ignore Linux at their peril.
...is that there is only one mention of the audio quality offered by the music vendors in this article:
...although Harmony streams at 160 kbps, rather than Napster's 128 kbps, giving better sound...
Apple's mp4 is reputed to be about as good as a 160 or 192kbps mp3. So, the best audio quality offered by online music stores is what I would call barely sufficient for bubble gum pop listening on my home stereo. No thanks. I'll start buying music downloads when the vendors start offering lossless tracks.
Firefox was supposed to be more secure than IE. But exploits for both browsers are close in numbers.
I'd like to see some stats regarding actual infections. I use FF almost exclusively, and SpyBot, AdAware and MS's AntiSpyware have nothing more than tracking cookies to clean on my computers. My girlfriend insists on using IE, and I'm regularly cleaning HotBot, Alexa, et. al., off of her computer, despite the fact that I keep it fully up to date with all of Microsoft's updates. As far as I'm concerned, those exploit statistics are a complete snowjob.
"OpenSSH is an enterprise-class product that is needed for the demands of a large-scale deployment. We think OpenSSH compares very favourably to our SSH Tectia. In fact, there really is no reason for enterprise users, or any users for that matter, to purchase our SSH Tectia product."
Does anyone really expect Rashed to say that?
Yep, you're right. I distinctly remembered hearing about how Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to leave our solar system:
"In 1983, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave our solar system. Until its maximum distance from Earth was exceeded in 1998, Pioneer 10 was the most distant human-made object."
But it seems the object that passed it in 1998 was Voyager 1.
The Voyager has passed into the border region at the edge of the solar system and now is sending back information about this never-before-explored area,...
Didn't Pioneer 10 or 11 already get this far?
Nowhere did I say I was a lawyer. I simply pointed out the obvious.
Technically, Google is in massive violation of copyright.
You said you are not a lawyer, so...
Technically, by the fact that you are viewing this comment, you are violating my copyrights. I have written this comment. It is stored in a fixed and tangible form. You have copied it into your computer's memory (Mai v. Peak) to view it. I have not given you written permission to view it (which, legally, is the only kind of permission that matters).
IANAL either, but I (and my lawyer girlfriend) disagree with this entirely. You are responding in a public forum. It's an 'open letter' of sorts, and as such I, or anyone else, is allowed to view, copy or respond to it. Also, and I'm not sure what Slashdot's policy on their posts is, or what we agreed to when we registered, but it may be that in posting on this forum, you are granting Slashdot the copyright on your material. One could also think of your post as a simple letter to me, where again, I have every right to copy, view and respond to it.
I do think you raise an interesting point with regards to the cached copies of copyrighted material being stored on private computers, web caches and search engines everywhere. In these cases, the nature of the technolgy of distribution does raise and interesting question with regards to the nature and meaning of 'copying'. However, I don't see how that affects anyone's fair use rights as defined under the law. They appear to be separate to me.
No, that is NOT what Google is doing. From the referenced link:
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand that this certainly falls within Fair Use under U.S. copyright law.
I don't like his idea of putting the tabs above the toolbar. His reason that the tabs function like 'separate browsing instances' doesn't wash with me. When you look at the the way tabs are implemented in FF, the current tab sort of melts into the open page, making it very clear which page the user is viewing. That kind of intuitiveness shouldn't be sacrificed.
Um, yes it was:
Did the LMI construct their case with deliberate weaknesses to assure this result?
Unlikely:
If you can actually phone said virgin and ask her how she got your name and why she contacted you, I suggest you go ahead and submit the article.
You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in.
Uh, huh. Right. You did it single-handedly.
Slashdot is a place for people to make comments about people who make comments about people who make comments that have nothing to do with the original article.
Gmail is beta.
Gmail does not have guaranteed uptime.
No kidding. I've had TONS of problems with Gmail, ranging from "Oops, try again later", to emails not being delivered for 17 hours +. No way should a company rely on something so flakey.
There's a simple solution to this. Just make the payment of the fee the same whether the patent was granted or not.
Simple. And obvious. Which is why it won't be done.
lmbench isn't testing threading; it's testing forking. These are NOT THE SAME on all *nix OSes.
True. And I think PowerBooks are cool, too... but back to the issue at hand.
If you would RTFA:
" Readers also pointed out that LMBench uses "fork", which is the way to create a process and not threads in all Unix variants, including Mac OS X and Linux...
The process creation is done with fork(), but fork() is nothing less than a clone() without the flags that describe the resources that must be shared. So, if you test fork() on Linux, you also get a rough idea of how fast threads are created...
What about Mac OS X? Well, when the Mach kernel is asked to create a Unix process (fork()), the mach kernel creates a task (which describes the resources available) and one thread. So, thread creation time is included in the fork () benchmark of Lmbench. "
Any questions?