> I gauren-damn-tee that you don't, and won't, listen to *all* the the files on that 40 gigs. I would wager that 20% you actually will ever play, and the rest are taking up space.
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Just like the %80 of my CD's I dont listen to. CD's collect take up REAL space AND collect dust. I rip them and then sell 'em back to the warehouse when I'm done. =)
But.... Forget MP3!
Dont waste your time ripping 80G of mp3 just to have to do it again when hardrive space quintuples in 2 years.... like I did.
Forget mp3 and all the other lossy compression types. They are/will be a complete waste of time when 1-200GB hard disks are selling for $200 sometime next summer.
I'm saving all my files with lossless compression with the flac format: http://flac.sourceforge.net
A cheap 80G drive should hold quite a bit, and I'll never have to rip the files again since they will expand to perfect digital copies when played.
Respected? I've never heard anyone accuse Dvorak of knowing what he was talking about. Even so I usually watch/read his stuff once in a while just for laughs.
Python has become my favorite language but one thing I miss from my Java work is the hierarchical class library. For instance networking classes are in.net, gui in.awt, etc.
Any chance the flat module list will be sorted some time in the future? It is growing and becoming harder to read. Thanks
I don't know the specifics, but I seem to remember that there is some buffer setting in the config files that you can increase to make working with large images more efficient.
you know what sucks is, if you are using this thing with DirecTV, the receiver already knows the tv listings. It shouldn't be difficult at all to get this info to the tivo. But this would eliminate their monthly fee revenue stream as well wouldn't it?
I hear dual dirctv/tivo systems are being built as well. If they don't download listings from the satellite I'll be mad, but not surprised.
(doh!) I'm using SGI Irix here at work and haven't really been able to use real player in a long time. Why? Because everyone switched to G2 and there is no player for this platform. I don't understand why there has to be a new version of real files every fucking year and everybody has to upgrade.
So is there really a big difference? I may not be able to play ms formats but I haven't been able to play real either. And their user interface is second only to ICQ in its lameness and ugliness. This is one company I _would_ like to see crushed by the ms onslaught.(/doh!)
By the way, there was a asf or netmeeting client for irix and linux at one time, maybe more will get ported. Unlikely, but I can only hope.
We have SGI origins at work with 24G of ram and yes, we're using it all to do very intensive particle renders. Not that we're using linux, but there _are_ uses for this much ram. The more linux advances the better.
yeah, but at least if it dies, it will go out giving lots of cool technology to linux. It could have died a lot of different ways, and a lot of great work could have been lost forever. Now, linux can assimilate the best parts of irix and add its diversity to its own. Soon galactic domination!
p.s. Also, I am still trying to forgive them for putting the PCI slots in their VW's backwards! I still haven't gotten over that. =(
you can do more with nt on the command line than you think. You just have to get the resource kit. There are like 100 command line proggys to do lots of stuff. Plus the new versions of nt will have the windows scripting host so you will be able to write real scripts. Add in the gnu utils and you are finally getting somewhere.
This thread is getting really long. Lemme just sum it up.
We need a gui that preserves the networking transparency of X, while allowing local programs to run directly (as possible) on the local hardware. The local programs should run through some sort of os abstraction layer to force them to follow "the rules". Not a difficult idea is it?
hmm I never used it this way before. Cool. Ive learned something new today. Just like the guy down below who mentioned ALT-ESC. Didn't know that either. Oops, so much for consistency. Looks like explorer does the scrollbar thingy but not Internet Explorer. DOH!
Still I think I like the way nedit on works on my irix box at work. You move the scroll bar thingy and an indentation is left where it used to be. Its easy to see where it used to be, and go back to it, with no jerky-ness.
I don't know what toolkit that is sorry. I'm sure other apps/os's work the same way.
Unfortunately there is no such thing as a "digital" amplifier. People throw this word around because its todays buzzword, and they don't really know what they're talking about. Processing may be done digitally, but when its time to pump current to speakers, yer talking analog baby, and thats never gonna change. Its not a bad thing either.
bull, my sony discman runs fine for at least 8-12 hours at a time on 2 AA batteries. Also, it has great shock protection in a tiny unit not much bigger than a cd. An extra mp3 chip and slower drive (1x instead of 2x it has now) would be trivial to implement. Maybe not as convenient as a half a gig of flash memory, but a hell of a lot cheaper.
No company is perfect, and I find that most of the time I'd rather have USPS. Why?
Because I live alone and don't have anyone here during the day to answer the door. The stupid UPS guy does something different everytime I get a package (frequently for computer parts), sometimes he gives it to a neighbor, sometimes leaves it on the ground, sometimes loses it, etc. One time I couldn't find a package they left for two weeks! He said he left it by the side door, but I don't have one, heh heh!
Long ago they invented a device to handle this sort of problem. !!It's called a MAILBOX!!!! I can check it when I get home.
If I could get these shipping companies to use it I would be in delivery heaven! They refuse though, maybe they are barred from using them or something, I dunno, sigh.
I have been reading recently that the latest 3d cards are so fast that the pentium II cpus can't feed 'em data (triangles?) fast enough. So a processor 2 or 3 times as fast would undoubtedly increase the speed of 3d accelleration.
Nedit rocks! Its got all the power and more of the hefty-duty editors with a standard gui interface, that you already know if you've used the mac or windows. Syntax highlighting, rectangular selections, macros, etc. Don't leave home without it =).
Ha hah, If this article weren't so silly it might make me angry. However I know that journalists frequently write unpopular articles just to stir up some debate, which isn't all bad. Unfortunately, maybe without realizing it he has made it clear to anyone with a background in technical (or even economic) areas that he has no clue what he's talking about, heh heh.
Let's take a closer look into what he was saying. Hmm, Bill isn't a monster . . . ok, I can agree with that. He's simply a shrewd and lucky businessman, whose increasing market share has led him and his company to lose sight of little things like fair play and morals, etc. Here again this is simply human nature, not out of the ordinary. People with an unfair advantage over others *will* use the advantage. Didn't some "Wise Old Dead Dude" say that "power corrupts?" I agree.
Now he goes on a rant on how we should stop wasting our time supporting competition and choice and just accept Windows as our personal savior. Huh? Has he ever taken a single economics class at that Cracker-Jack college he went to? When has a lack of choice *ever* resulted in a better situation for the consumer? Hmm, I don't know. Ask your cable company, *if* you can get them to answer the phone!
Also, I should just mention that Linux (really open source in general) is not ever going away. This is exactly the type of collaboration that the internet makes possible and encourages. You are witnessing the power of the contributions of the *entire* world sharing and collaborating, and building on the work of others. Just as the power of compound interest makes for a much better investment return you will see much better and varied software now and later. Do you really think the third world (where the real growth is) is gonna fork over $300 for each computer to the richest (maybe?) man in the world? The only M$ products they use now are pirated.
If linux seems unfinished, well that's because it *is*! And yet it grows exponentially every year. Perhaps you are making your judgements on the linux of a year ago, I assure you this is not your father's linux. Windows will simply never be able to catch up after W2k version, because the version after that won't be out until 2003, while linux will be significantly improved every 3-6 months. It is already technically superior, it just needs to fleshed out with user apps, and that is happening quickly.
Finally, if anyone is wasting their time they're wasting it on Windows. They are supporting the very company that limits their choice, rewards them with dll conflicts and frequent reboots and crashes, as well as not supporting a system that benefits us all.
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> I gauren-damn-tee that you don't, and won't, listen to *all* the the files on that 40 gigs. I would wager that 20% you actually will ever play, and the rest are taking up space.
.... Forget MP3!
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Just like the %80 of my CD's I dont listen to. CD's collect take up REAL space AND collect dust. I rip them and then sell 'em back to the warehouse when I'm done. =)
But
Dont waste your time ripping 80G of mp3 just to have to do it again when hardrive space quintuples in 2 years.... like I did.
Forget mp3 and all the other lossy compression types. They are/will be a complete waste of time when 1-200GB hard disks are selling for $200 sometime next summer.
I'm saving all my files with lossless compression with the flac format: http://flac.sourceforge.net
A cheap 80G drive should hold quite a bit, and I'll never have to rip the files again since they will expand to perfect digital copies when played.
Trying to save the world time....
Ha!!
Respected? I've never heard anyone accuse Dvorak of knowing what he was talking about. Even so I usually watch/read his stuff once in a while just for laughs.
Python has become my favorite language but one thing I miss from my Java work is the hierarchical class library. For instance networking classes are in .net, gui in .awt, etc.
Any chance the flat module list will be sorted some time in the future? It is growing and becoming harder to read. Thanks
I don't know the specifics, but I seem to remember that there is some buffer setting in the config files that you can increase to make working with large images more efficient.
If you can find it, you might want to crank it.
-Mike
you know what sucks is, if you are using this thing with DirecTV, the receiver already knows the tv listings. It shouldn't be difficult at all to get this info to the tivo. But this would eliminate their monthly fee revenue stream as well wouldn't it?
I hear dual dirctv/tivo systems are being built as well. If they don't download listings from the satellite I'll be mad, but not surprised.
(doh!) I'm using SGI Irix here at work and haven't really been able to use real player in a long time. Why? Because everyone switched to G2 and there is no player for this platform. I don't understand why there has to be a new version of real files every fucking year and everybody has to upgrade.
So is there really a big difference? I may not be able to play ms formats but I haven't been able to play real either. And their user interface is second only to ICQ in its lameness and ugliness. This is one company I _would_ like to see crushed by the ms onslaught.(/doh!)
By the way, there was a asf or netmeeting client for irix and linux at one time, maybe more will get ported. Unlikely, but I can only hope.
We have SGI origins at work with 24G of ram and yes, we're using it all to do very intensive particle renders. Not that we're using linux, but there _are_ uses for this much ram. The more linux advances the better.
I don't know what kind of idiot OS would cache a ramdisk, unless a total idiot coder wrote the caching software.
good riddance, gimme usb and cardbus, thats all I want. And I do know how to use a pc.
yeah, but at least if it dies, it will go out giving lots of cool technology to linux. It could have died a lot of different ways, and a lot of great work could have been lost forever. Now, linux can assimilate the best parts of irix and add its diversity to its own. Soon galactic domination!
p.s. Also, I am still trying to forgive them for putting the PCI slots in their VW's backwards! I still haven't gotten over that. =(
you can do more with nt on the command line than you think. You just have to get the resource kit. There are like 100 command line proggys to do lots of stuff. Plus the new versions of nt will have the windows scripting host so you will be able to write real scripts. Add in the gnu utils and you are finally getting somewhere.
This thread is getting really long. Lemme just sum it up.
We need a gui that preserves the networking transparency of X, while allowing local programs to run directly (as possible) on the local hardware. The local programs should run through some sort of os abstraction layer to force them to follow "the rules". Not a difficult idea is it?
p.s. Aren't people working on this already?
hmm I never used it this way before. Cool. Ive learned something new today. Just like the guy down below who mentioned ALT-ESC. Didn't know that either. Oops, so much for consistency. Looks like explorer does the scrollbar thingy but not Internet Explorer. DOH!
Still I think I like the way nedit on works on my irix box at work. You move the scroll bar thingy and an indentation is left where it used to be. Its easy to see where it used to be, and go back to it, with no jerky-ness.
I don't know what toolkit that is sorry. I'm sure other apps/os's work the same way.
heh heh, I had to look up this "emetic" word over at dictionary.com. I got a good laugh, thanks.
It means "to induce vomitting." =)
Doh! I could find a way to fill it. Like replace my mp3's with full quality wav files, heh heh.
where can I find out about this SHN?
Unfortunately there is no such thing as a "digital" amplifier. People throw this word around because its todays buzzword, and they don't really know what they're talking about. Processing may be done digitally, but when its time to pump current to speakers, yer talking analog baby, and thats never gonna change. Its not a bad thing either.
bull, my sony discman runs fine for at least 8-12 hours at a time on 2 AA batteries. Also, it has great shock protection in a tiny unit not much bigger than a cd. An extra mp3 chip and slower drive (1x instead of 2x it has now) would be trivial to implement. Maybe not as convenient as a half a gig of flash memory, but a hell of a lot cheaper.
the harrier is a jet, this uses rotary powered fans which are an order of magnitude quieter. Please read the article before posting. =)
the first space shuttle was Columbia.
oooh . . . How does it do that?
No company is perfect, and I find that most of the time I'd rather have USPS. Why?
Because I live alone and don't have anyone here during the day to answer the door. The stupid UPS guy does something different everytime I get a package (frequently for computer parts), sometimes he gives it to a neighbor, sometimes leaves it on the ground, sometimes loses it, etc. One time I couldn't find a package they left for two weeks! He said he left it by the side door, but I don't have one, heh heh!
Long ago they invented a device to handle this sort of problem. !!It's called a MAILBOX!!!!
I can check it when I get home.
If I could get these shipping companies to use it I would be in delivery heaven! They refuse though, maybe they are barred from using them or something, I dunno, sigh.
I have been reading recently that the latest 3d cards are so fast that the pentium II cpus can't feed 'em data (triangles?) fast enough. So a processor 2 or 3 times as fast would undoubtedly increase the speed of 3d accelleration.
Nedit rocks! Its got all the power and more of the hefty-duty editors with a standard gui interface, that you already know if you've used the mac or windows. Syntax highlighting, rectangular selections, macros, etc. Don't leave home without it =).
http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html
Let's take a closer look into what he was saying. Hmm, Bill isn't a monster . . . ok, I can agree with that. He's simply a shrewd and lucky businessman, whose increasing market share has led him and his company to lose sight of little things like fair play and morals, etc. Here again this is simply human nature, not out of the ordinary. People with an unfair advantage over others *will* use the advantage. Didn't some "Wise Old Dead Dude" say that "power corrupts?" I agree.
Now he goes on a rant on how we should stop wasting our time supporting competition and choice and just accept Windows as our personal savior. Huh? Has he ever taken a single economics class at that Cracker-Jack college he went to? When has a lack of choice *ever* resulted in a better situation for the consumer? Hmm, I don't know. Ask your cable company, *if* you can get them to answer the phone!
Also, I should just mention that Linux (really open source in general) is not ever going away. This is exactly the type of collaboration that the internet makes possible and encourages. You are witnessing the power of the contributions of the *entire* world sharing and collaborating, and building on the work of others. Just as the power of compound interest makes for a much better investment return you will see much better and varied software now and later. Do you really think the third world (where the real growth is) is gonna fork over $300 for each computer to the richest (maybe?) man in the world? The only M$ products they use now are pirated.
If linux seems unfinished, well that's because it *is*! And yet it grows exponentially every year. Perhaps you are making your judgements on the linux of a year ago, I assure you this is not your father's linux. Windows will simply never be able to catch up after W2k version, because the version after that won't be out until 2003, while linux will be significantly improved every 3-6 months. It is already technically superior, it just needs to fleshed out with user apps, and that is happening quickly.
Finally, if anyone is wasting their time they're wasting it on Windows. They are supporting the very company that limits their choice, rewards them with dll conflicts and frequent reboots and crashes, as well as not supporting a system that benefits us all.