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You beat me to it. OS X also implements dynamic disk mounts even for root. Disks are mounted and assigned to a device on a first-come first-served basis.
If you need to be in the office at a certain time, it's not "flex time" that people know of in Silicon Valley. Flex time is when the employee sets the time/day when projects get worked on, not the manager.
My oldest CD is The Digital Domain - A Demonstration pressed in 1983 by Elektra/Asylum Records/WEA International in Japan (Sanyo). It still plays fine without any problems on my Macintosh with a Pioneer DVD-115.
I get the feeling that if I were to play it on my old Sony portable D7 which has no oversampling it may have problems... but that unit is in storage so I don't know for sure.
I think on-the-fly compression will add latency, especially if the data stream isn't continuous like that used by online first-person perspective games. But will the latency be less than that of a hardware (real) modem with compression turned on? Like another poster have said, it's better to go with broadband.
Just follow these guys' works from their inception in 1976 and that will provide more than enough examples. Landmarks will mean different things for every individual...better stick with one or two companies. Everybody knows about ILM, and they set the bar.
We would also appreciate it if you could make your presentation materials available to Slashdot readers.
Actually, Ritek discs aren't bad. Most TDKs are manufacturered by CMC, and its QC is below that of Ritek. Riteks are the best discs manufacturered in Taiwan, in my opinion. Certainly above stuff like Prodisc, Leadtek, etc.
If you want TY CD-Rs, buy FujiFilms and look for "Made in Japan." I have never had a TDK made by Taiyo Yuden.
I'm also concerned that whenever I eject a CD/DVD, the disc is quite warm. It's especially true if you have avi files or a movie that is in a drive for around 2 hours (more so with avi files on a DVD-/+R).
Personally, I feel how one stores their media after they've been written is much more important. Things like humidity, range of temperature affect the life and stability of the media.
Unfortunately, Mitsui and Kodak are no longer manufacturing CD/DVD optical media. Taiyo Yuden appears to not have any 4X DVD optical media for sale either.
'cuz the posts naming Xvid, 3ivx, and ffdshow make it a worthy story. I didn't know about ffdshow, and I sure hell will install it--and remove DivX/XviD--tonight if the alleged reduction of CPU usage is true.
Only the disclaimer is in 3-point type on the box (if it is there) and the 54Mbps raw rate is in large 72-point type. Joe user will see the larger typeface and will think 54Mbps even though that's not the rate in the real world.
When I first built my Asus A7V roughly 2 years ago, I bought a Sparkle 300W PSU from Fry's. Was one of those that was P4-compatible. Had massive stability problems. System would lock up, not reboot, not cold boot. Basically a big headache. On a hunch, I returned the PSU and ordered a PC Power & Cooling 300W. Very stable ever since.
By default, your history files are only readable by you and is not group/world readable. Your shell actually sets this up--regardless of your umask--when it first creates the file so only a bozo who manually changes the modes deserves what they get as a consequence.
DVD+R/RW's subtle advantages will mean jack-$#!+ for most people. What will probably win the + format is Plextor's 8X drive coming in September/October.
Like CD-Rs/CD-RWs, it would depend on who manufacturers the media. Good brands for DVD-Rs/RWs are Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, and Ritek. Ritek being the least expensive brand of DVD media I would buy, it's also made in Taiwan unlike TY and Pioneer which are made in Japan. Maxell CD-Rs are mostly Ritek, and people have found them to be of good quality. It's unfortunate Mitsui has exited the optical media market because even while their products are very expensive, they were very high quality. At least TY is still making media.
Incidentally, I have a DVD+RW authored the middle of last year which DVDinfo says is made by Pioneer.
Companies like Imation, Verbatim, and even TDK and Sony probably farms out their media to others so it's basically a crap shoot. Fuji CD-Rs are manufacturered by TY if the label says "Made in Japan" but I saw a spindle of DVD-R media that says "Made in Taiwan," so these probably aren't TY.
Most people who are familiar with NeXT technologies take "implementation of GNUstep" as "something that provides the frameworks of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/GNUstep." GNUstep is that free implementation?
I use Window Maker under my FreeBSD partition so I am already familiar with it. Lightweight and efficient. But it is not NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP under its skin, just on the surface.
No. Window Maker is not a free implementation of OPENSTEP. GNUstep is the free implementation of OPENSTEP. Window Maker only looks like NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP but it is in no way coded using GNUstep classes.
There is a similar contrast with Dreamcast titles when you compare AM2's Ferrari F355 Challenge to others on the console. Crazy Taxi High Roller looks more like your average game but when you see OutRun 2's graphics it is like day and night. It's a shame the DC is dead otherwise Sega may have ported OutRun 2 to some future incarnation of the DC. If the X-Box receives OutRun 2, I'll definitely pick one up.
My original concern was really with existing heatsinks. I actually saw the article before I saw it on this site and was disappointed that the bundled HSF was not shown. Is it a whimpy fan or a big humongous one? Guess since my Alpha is working fine, I didn't want to change in case I want one of these XP-TMCs.
But then I would probably prefer to go with connecting the bridges but I was not successful with the crazy-glue route--the glue kept lifting off the chip's surface as I tried to remove the masking tape after connecting the bridges.
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You beat me to it. OS X also implements dynamic disk mounts even for root. Disks are mounted and assigned to a device on a first-come first-served basis.
If you need to be in the office at a certain time, it's not "flex time" that people know of in Silicon Valley. Flex time is when the employee sets the time/day when projects get worked on, not the manager.
Your motorcycle is probably quicker than a 959, but it is not faster nor could it outcorner one. But I guess one out of 3 ain't bad.
I get the feeling that if I were to play it on my old Sony portable D7 which has no oversampling it may have problems... but that unit is in storage so I don't know for sure.
I think on-the-fly compression will add latency, especially if the data stream isn't continuous like that used by online first-person perspective games. But will the latency be less than that of a hardware (real) modem with compression turned on? Like another poster have said, it's better to go with broadband.
It will just tell someone two trees are similar/identical. The important thing to prove in court is who copied from whom.
Just follow these guys' works from their inception in 1976 and that will provide more than enough examples. Landmarks will mean different things for every individual...better stick with one or two companies. Everybody knows about ILM, and they set the bar.
We would also appreciate it if you could make your presentation materials available to Slashdot readers.
Actually, Ritek discs aren't bad. Most TDKs are manufacturered by CMC, and its QC is below that of Ritek. Riteks are the best discs manufacturered in Taiwan, in my opinion. Certainly above stuff like Prodisc, Leadtek, etc. If you want TY CD-Rs, buy FujiFilms and look for "Made in Japan." I have never had a TDK made by Taiyo Yuden.
I read in the past that CD-Rs have a finite shelf life and need to be written to before a year or so of manufacture date. Urban legend?
I'm also concerned that whenever I eject a CD/DVD, the disc is quite warm. It's especially true if you have avi files or a movie that is in a drive for around 2 hours (more so with avi files on a DVD-/+R).
Personally, I feel how one stores their media after they've been written is much more important. Things like humidity, range of temperature affect the life and stability of the media.
Unfortunately, Mitsui and Kodak are no longer manufacturing CD/DVD optical media. Taiyo Yuden appears to not have any 4X DVD optical media for sale either.
'cuz the posts naming Xvid, 3ivx, and ffdshow make it a worthy story. I didn't know about ffdshow, and I sure hell will install it--and remove DivX/XviD--tonight if the alleged reduction of CPU usage is true.
Minor correction: I think you meant Nikola Tesla, not Telsa.
Only the disclaimer is in 3-point type on the box (if it is there) and the 54Mbps raw rate is in large 72-point type. Joe user will see the larger typeface and will think 54Mbps even though that's not the rate in the real world.
When I first built my Asus A7V roughly 2 years ago, I bought a Sparkle 300W PSU from Fry's. Was one of those that was P4-compatible. Had massive stability problems. System would lock up, not reboot, not cold boot. Basically a big headache. On a hunch, I returned the PSU and ordered a PC Power & Cooling 300W. Very stable ever since.
By default, your history files are only readable by you and is not group/world readable. Your shell actually sets this up--regardless of your umask--when it first creates the file so only a bozo who manually changes the modes deserves what they get as a consequence.
DVD+R/RW's subtle advantages will mean jack-$#!+ for most people. What will probably win the + format is Plextor's 8X drive coming in September/October.
Like CD-Rs/CD-RWs, it would depend on who manufacturers the media. Good brands for DVD-Rs/RWs are Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, and Ritek. Ritek being the least expensive brand of DVD media I would buy, it's also made in Taiwan unlike TY and Pioneer which are made in Japan. Maxell CD-Rs are mostly Ritek, and people have found them to be of good quality. It's unfortunate Mitsui has exited the optical media market because even while their products are very expensive, they were very high quality. At least TY is still making media.
Incidentally, I have a DVD+RW authored the middle of last year which DVDinfo says is made by Pioneer.
Companies like Imation, Verbatim, and even TDK and Sony probably farms out their media to others so it's basically a crap shoot. Fuji CD-Rs are manufacturered by TY if the label says "Made in Japan" but I saw a spindle of DVD-R media that says "Made in Taiwan," so these probably aren't TY.
Most people who are familiar with NeXT technologies take "implementation of GNUstep" as "something that provides the frameworks of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/GNUstep." GNUstep is that free implementation?
I use Window Maker under my FreeBSD partition so I am already familiar with it. Lightweight and efficient. But it is not NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP under its skin, just on the surface.
No. Window Maker is not a free implementation of OPENSTEP. GNUstep is the free implementation of OPENSTEP. Window Maker only looks like NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP but it is in no way coded using GNUstep classes.
There is a similar contrast with Dreamcast titles when you compare AM2's Ferrari F355 Challenge to others on the console. Crazy Taxi High Roller looks more like your average game but when you see OutRun 2's graphics it is like day and night. It's a shame the DC is dead otherwise Sega may have ported OutRun 2 to some future incarnation of the DC. If the X-Box receives OutRun 2, I'll definitely pick one up.
Just picking up from the first page yields some tidbits. Range, reliability; Interference.
Would it not be more accurate to say "inspired by Minix" instead?
My original concern was really with existing heatsinks. I actually saw the article before I saw it on this site and was disappointed that the bundled HSF was not shown. Is it a whimpy fan or a big humongous one? Guess since my Alpha is working fine, I didn't want to change in case I want one of these XP-TMCs.
But then I would probably prefer to go with connecting the bridges but I was not successful with the crazy-glue route--the glue kept lifting off the chip's surface as I tried to remove the masking tape after connecting the bridges.