I don't mean to be the smelly hairy audiophile (anyway, I'm not) but the 192Kb MP3s that you refer to suck as soon as you're not listening to them on those shitty iPod headphones.
Maybe to you. I have some decent headphones (Sennheiser HD 497) and I can't tell the difference between CDs and lame --alt-preset-standard (VBR, about 192kbps). I'd say most people are in the same boat.
You can't. You need someone with root access to edit it for you. If you could edit it yourself, you'd be able to circumvent whatever restrictions the root user imposed.
You got it exactly backwards. Classical music needs a wide frequency range, but stereo is rarely an issue (many older classical recordings are even mono). I personally think 160+kbps MP3 is fine, but I can see how some people wouldn't.
Really? They say there was no gunfire when Kerry recieved his Bronze Star for rescuing Jim Rassman, a Green Beret who'd fallen out of his boat. Kerry says there was gunfire. Rassman says there was gunfire. The only people at that scene who say there wasn't gunfire were the three Swift Boat Veterans for Bush, one of whom (Larry Thurlow) also recieved a Bronze Star that day, the citation for which says "all units began receiving enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire from the river banks".
If you're willing to accept the (flimsy) evidence against Kerry, you should also be willing to accept the (slightly less flimsy) evidence against Bush. Not that it matters what happened 35 years ago. I'd prefer to judge the presidential candidates on their records and positions than try fruitlessly to figure out exactly what they were doing 35 years ago.
It's not as good for gaming, but better for almost anything else. Dual-processor systems "feel" much faster than they are, because the system is never bogged down by a single CPU-intensive process. You can be encoding video, rendering animations, launching programs, whatever in the background and whatever you're doing in the foreground is still just as fast.
Besides, the CPU is rarely the bottleneck in gaming (as long as you have a decent one). A 4Ghz P4 will probably only get you 10% more FPS than a (thousands cheaper) 2.5Ghz, as long as both systems have the same vidcard and RAM.
The firm builds high-performance good looking PCs out of the best components with a price tag to match.
The point is that you could use those same "best components" and it would cost you a lot less. Alienware makes nice machines, but their markup is enormous.
Terminal Server? Okay, so you're not using Linux in the first place. Never mind then. From my understanding, these effects are rendered by the X server, so if you were using remote X, there would be no performance hit on the server (although the clients would have to able to handle it).
I'm not an engineer, but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of their work involved CAD or other 3D modeling type applications, which definitely require high-end video.
Furthermore, its performance is competitive with the very best desktops based on the new 64-bit x86 processors.
Not really. It's competitive for the price, but any new Opteron would blow it away. The G5 PowerMac, OTOH, is definitely in the same league as the top x86 boxes.
It sounds noble to give them a choice, but I wonder how many actually choose to leave? It's a similar deal to the Jehovah's Witnesses - sure you can leave, but if you do you lose all your friends and family for the rest of your life.
It's not like they have to manage any of that by hand. It'd be pretty easy to automate the whole thing; the maintainer would just upload the complete new package and the system could take care of the diffing. It'd take a bit more server space, but I think the payoffs would be quite worth it.
95% of Linux systems (everything using apt, red carpet, yum, up2date, etc) recieve binary updates. On Debian unstable, my apt-get dist-upgrade after a month vacation runs about 200MB. Even over my crappy DSL, that's a few hours. If that could be reduced (and of course it could, often it's downloading all 50MB of OpenOffice for what was maybe a 50KB source patch), that'd save me a lot of time.
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They have.
It's easy if you try, not "isn't hard".
It doesn't work well but it's still possible.
What does that have to do with Linux? Firefox runs under Windows too.
Maybe to you. I have some decent headphones (Sennheiser HD 497) and I can't tell the difference between CDs and lame --alt-preset-standard (VBR, about 192kbps). I'd say most people are in the same boat.
Yeah, but you have to buy a separate add-on - something like $60.
So what was your point?
What do you mean, "nope"? You just agreed with me. :-)
You got it exactly backwards. Classical music needs a wide frequency range, but stereo is rarely an issue (many older classical recordings are even mono). I personally think 160+kbps MP3 is fine, but I can see how some people wouldn't.
I dunno about drives, but the iPod firmware is quite easy to replace. Witness iPod Linux.
Not necessarily. A guy can fuck a lesbian, or a girl a gay man.
If you're willing to accept the (flimsy) evidence against Kerry, you should also be willing to accept the (slightly less flimsy) evidence against Bush. Not that it matters what happened 35 years ago. I'd prefer to judge the presidential candidates on their records and positions than try fruitlessly to figure out exactly what they were doing 35 years ago.
The XBox has 64MB of RAM. But your point still applies.
Besides, the CPU is rarely the bottleneck in gaming (as long as you have a decent one). A 4Ghz P4 will probably only get you 10% more FPS than a (thousands cheaper) 2.5Ghz, as long as both systems have the same vidcard and RAM.
Or his/her finger slipped on the 'o' key. Not paying attention/bad typing skills != stupidity.
The point is that you could use those same "best components" and it would cost you a lot less. Alienware makes nice machines, but their markup is enormous.
The Single Window extension will open all new window links (whether by target="foo" or JavaScript) in a new tab.
Terminal Server? Okay, so you're not using Linux in the first place. Never mind then. From my understanding, these effects are rendered by the X server, so if you were using remote X, there would be no performance hit on the server (although the clients would have to able to handle it).
But, if "cute" is built in already and doesn't screw anything up, what's wrong with it? Do you have your users work in grayscale too?
I'm not an engineer, but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of their work involved CAD or other 3D modeling type applications, which definitely require high-end video.
Not really. It's competitive for the price, but any new Opteron would blow it away. The G5 PowerMac, OTOH, is definitely in the same league as the top x86 boxes.
It sounds noble to give them a choice, but I wonder how many actually choose to leave? It's a similar deal to the Jehovah's Witnesses - sure you can leave, but if you do you lose all your friends and family for the rest of your life.
It's not like they have to manage any of that by hand. It'd be pretty easy to automate the whole thing; the maintainer would just upload the complete new package and the system could take care of the diffing. It'd take a bit more server space, but I think the payoffs would be quite worth it.
95% of Linux systems (everything using apt, red carpet, yum, up2date, etc) recieve binary updates. On Debian unstable, my apt-get dist-upgrade after a month vacation runs about 200MB. Even over my crappy DSL, that's a few hours. If that could be reduced (and of course it could, often it's downloading all 50MB of OpenOffice for what was maybe a 50KB source patch), that'd save me a lot of time.
GIMP 2 has a menu at the top of every window. No need to right click.