In my experience, Windows Media is pretty good. Check out www.twistedtunes.com and check out what kind of quality you can fit into small spaces using it. While MP3 gets about a 500k/min for 22KHz audio, Windows Media gets 200k/min, and the most amazing part is that the quality is really good. Looks like Microsoft was facing some potential competition from the MP3 format and came up with some decent software to counter it. I don't guess they have figured out that you can't compete with an open standard such as MP3 (or an open OS such as Linux, or even an open API such as OpenGL). However Microsoft may try, they can't kill something that's open like they can kill a company.
Actually, Win95 on floppy was _only_ 35 or so floppies and _only_ took 1.5 hours to install. The really fun part is reinstalling it after it crashes:-).
Ok, what I'm seeing here is that this is a use tax, one that goes towards maintaining the infrastructure. If they implement something like this in Texas, then will they actually improve the infrastructure? I seriously doubt it. I would have no problem paying a tax on online purchases if it actually went to where it was intended to go. If I pay a tax on internet purchases then I expect an improvement of the infrastructure, I want them to run the fiber so everyone can have a cable modem, I don't want to pay for Mr. Bureaucrat 's new car. Alas, usually that is where this money will go. So much for a government that is _for the people_.
Americans should be geniuses when it comes to recall!!! I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but in the ingredients to regular pepsi, caffiene actully comes before the flavoring. I shouln't ever forget anything, ever, mwahaha.
I think Popular Science did something on this a while back. The notebook didn't succumb to defeat until they hit it with an axe (it survived the Mac truck running over it). It was later determined that the axe didn't break the computer, it only broke the LCD screen. I would gladly accept any extra of these laying around as a donation.
According to common sense going from 1g to 2 would be half of the 1 g number. What formula did you use. Check my Physics post (sorry about the formatting in it) and check my math, Mathematica 4.0 did it, so I think its right.
If you assume that there is no friction or air resistance, then you can use (Vfinal)^2=(Voriginal)^2+2*acceleration*distance Vfinal being 7miles/sec (11401.4208 m/s) Voriginal being 0 Acceleration: 1G=9.8m/s^2 2G=19.6m/s^2 5G=49m/s^2 Solve for s s -> 6.632265115238399e6 m (~4561mi) @ 1G s -> 3.3161325576191996e6 m (~2281mi) @ 2G s -> 1.3264530230476798e6 m (~820mi) @ 5G So, as you can see the tunnel would have to be insanely long to get anything into space _assuming_ your number of 7 miles/sec. is correct.
Is this going to be anything like the e-machines. All the cheapest stuff you can get, winmodems, non-multiread cdrom, no 3d accellerator, etc... Sure you can word process on them, but the computers were REALLY meant for games, otherwise Best Buy wouldn't have 5 rows of games and 1 of useful software.
It's happy, it's fun, it's happy fun ball!!! . . . If ruptured happy fun ball should not be touched, inhaled or looked at. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
This is for some reason reminding me of a certain article on/. just a few weeks ago. Except I didn't need 20 grand for the other one.
KDE is nice, but it does need some work
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Although KDE is nice, it could use some major work on speed and memory consumption. While Window Maker and Enlightenment run on my 486/50 MHz with 12Mb of RAM, KDE brings it to a crawl. Although this software was meant for pentiums, it should at least be able to run standalone without any problems, but as standalone apps they are very slow and perform poorly as opposed to GNOME apps which run at acceptable performance levels (even good enough to play that cool Othello game that comes with GNOME, Iagno I think). Even with the slow down, though, KDE is still better, faster and more stable than certain other operating systems.
This sounds great, but ATI's tech support is almost non-existant, it took them 2 weeks to even reply to one of my e-mails, they didn't even have an automailer to say that they recieved the mail. It took months to get out the current crappy OpenGL driver for my ATI Rage Pro card, and the card isn't that great for Direct3D either (thankfully I didn't pay for the card). So what if it has two processors? Just think, I get crappy dithered (ATI Rage Pros don't support 32-bit OpenGL) images at double the speed, WOW thats double the crappiness, what a deal!!! I'll never buy another computer that comes packaged with an ATI card in it again.
My first distro was Redhat 4.2, it was great, until I got to the point where it said localhost login: . I had never used UNIX before and the only reason I bought Linux was because it looked like it might be cool. After finally getting logged in, I was faced with another challenge: [root@localhost] #, after trying a bunch of stuff I finally figured out that you have to type./ before the filename of things you want to run. Then I disoverd X, WOW graphics (this was right after I almost fried my monitor). My suggestion for Linux, always keep something nearby that you can smash without costing you much, even with KDE and GNOME things don't always go smoothly, but hey Linus said that Linux was supposed to be fun, not user friendly.
If you can get the cylinders out of the drive undamaged you can string them together and use them as a wind chime. When my 1.3 gig drive died, I hung the cylinders on my wall and when i'm tired of working on a paper or program i stare at them as they spin around and reflect nifty patterns on my wall:-) (they're so much more interesting than writing papers on The Scarlet Letter).
Re:Hmmmm. Perhaps we need a demo mode.
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I agree, an interactive tutorial covering the basics would help tremendously. Also, it might be helpful if there were a team of people dedicated completely to hardware autodetection, so Linux can be installed without the person having much knowledge of the details of their hardware (just the basics, i.e. "I know I have a video card made by ATI, but that's all I know"). Something like what Windows 95 does when you install it, except no thrashing of the hard drive and lock-ups (thought as I understand it, due to the way the PC architecture was designed lock-ups are inescapeable in auto-detection).
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In my experience, Windows Media is pretty good. Check out www.twistedtunes.com and check out what kind of quality you can fit into small spaces using it. While MP3 gets about a 500k/min for 22KHz audio, Windows Media gets 200k/min, and the most amazing part is that the quality is really good. Looks like Microsoft was facing some potential competition from the MP3 format and came up with some decent software to counter it. I don't guess they have figured out that you can't compete with an open standard such as MP3 (or an open OS such as Linux, or even an open API such as OpenGL). However Microsoft may try, they can't kill something that's open like they can kill a company.
Actually, Win95 on floppy was _only_ 35 or so floppies and _only_ took 1.5 hours to install. The really fun part is reinstalling it after it crashes :-).
Ok, what I'm seeing here is that this is a use tax, one that goes towards maintaining the infrastructure. If they implement something like this in Texas, then will they actually improve the infrastructure? I seriously doubt it. I would have no problem paying a tax on online purchases if it actually went to where it was intended to go. If I pay a tax on internet purchases then I expect an improvement of the infrastructure, I want them to run the fiber so everyone can have a cable modem, I don't want to pay for Mr. Bureaucrat 's new car. Alas, usually that is where this money will go. So much for a government that is _for the people_.
Americans should be geniuses when it comes to recall!!! I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but in the ingredients to regular pepsi, caffiene actully comes before the flavoring. I shouln't ever forget anything, ever, mwahaha.
I think Popular Science did something on this a while back. The notebook didn't succumb to defeat until they hit it with an axe (it survived the Mac truck running over it). It was later determined that the axe didn't break the computer, it only broke the LCD screen. I would gladly accept any extra of these laying around as a donation.
According to common sense going from 1g to 2 would be half of the 1 g number. What formula did you use. Check my Physics post (sorry about the formatting in it) and check my math, Mathematica 4.0 did it, so I think its right.
If you assume that there is no friction or air resistance, then you can use (Vfinal)^2=(Voriginal)^2+2*acceleration*distance Vfinal being 7miles/sec (11401.4208 m/s) Voriginal being 0 Acceleration: 1G=9.8m/s^2 2G=19.6m/s^2 5G=49m/s^2 Solve for s s -> 6.632265115238399e6 m (~4561mi) @ 1G s -> 3.3161325576191996e6 m (~2281mi) @ 2G s -> 1.3264530230476798e6 m (~820mi) @ 5G So, as you can see the tunnel would have to be insanely long to get anything into space _assuming_ your number of 7 miles/sec. is correct.
Is this going to be anything like the e-machines. All the cheapest stuff you can get, winmodems, non-multiread cdrom, no 3d accellerator, etc... Sure you can word process on them, but the computers were REALLY meant for games, otherwise Best Buy wouldn't have 5 rows of games and 1 of useful software.
It's happy, it's fun, it's happy fun ball!!! . . . If ruptured happy fun ball should not be touched, inhaled or looked at. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
This is for some reason reminding me of a certain article on /. just a few weeks ago. Except I didn't need 20 grand for the other one.
Although KDE is nice, it could use some major work on speed and memory consumption. While Window Maker and Enlightenment run on my 486/50 MHz with 12Mb of RAM, KDE brings it to a crawl. Although this software was meant for pentiums, it should at least be able to run standalone without any problems, but as standalone apps they are very slow and perform poorly as opposed to GNOME apps which run at acceptable performance levels (even good enough to play that cool Othello game that comes with GNOME, Iagno I think). Even with the slow down, though, KDE is still better, faster and more stable than certain other operating systems.
Why do they even bother telling us there is a bug if it hasn't been released yet? Anyone with half a brain would quietly fix the problem and go on.
This sounds great, but ATI's tech support is almost non-existant, it took them 2 weeks to even reply to one of my e-mails, they didn't even have an automailer to say that they recieved the mail. It took months to get out the current crappy OpenGL driver for my ATI Rage Pro card, and the card isn't that great for Direct3D either (thankfully I didn't pay for the card). So what if it has two processors? Just think, I get crappy dithered (ATI Rage Pros don't support 32-bit OpenGL) images at double the speed, WOW thats double the crappiness, what a deal!!! I'll never buy another computer that comes packaged with an ATI card in it again.
My first distro was Redhat 4.2, it was great, until I got to the point where it said localhost login: . I had never used UNIX before and the only reason I bought Linux was because it looked like it might be cool. After finally getting logged in, I was faced with another challenge: [root@localhost] #, after trying a bunch of stuff I finally figured out that you have to type ./ before the filename of things you want to run. Then I disoverd X, WOW graphics (this was right after I almost fried my monitor). My suggestion for Linux, always keep something nearby that you can smash without costing you much, even with KDE and GNOME things don't always go smoothly, but hey Linus said that Linux was supposed to be fun, not user friendly.
If you can get the cylinders out of the drive undamaged you can string them together and use them as a wind chime. When my 1.3 gig drive died, I hung the cylinders on my wall and when i'm tired of working on a paper or program i stare at them as they spin around and reflect nifty patterns on my wall :-) (they're so much more interesting than writing papers on The Scarlet Letter).
I agree, an interactive tutorial covering the basics would help tremendously. Also, it might be helpful if there were a team of people dedicated completely to hardware autodetection, so Linux can be installed without the person having much knowledge of the details of their hardware (just the basics, i.e. "I know I have a video card made by ATI, but that's all I know"). Something like what Windows 95 does when you install it, except no thrashing of the hard drive and lock-ups (thought as I understand it, due to the way the PC architecture was designed lock-ups are inescapeable in auto-detection).