Oops. Err, guess what, PC or not, that still very offensive. Kind of letting the undershirt show there, I think. I'll tell you what, why don't you share with the rest of us what the Russian slang for black people is, in English?
Nope. I am not a racist. I have absolutely no problem with black people. I am not sure which slang you are talking about: most Russians will use the word "chernyy", which literally means black. Newcomers will use the word "negr", which is exactly "negro" translated. The ones that are racist, or trying to demean them will use "shokoladka" or "obezyana", meaning chocolate and monkey. Is that the slang you have heard. I do not know all the Russian communities in US, perhaps another slang is used in Brighton, West Hollywood, or Chicago. I am not familiar with those large communities.
A lot of Russians are racist, I am not. However, I am very direct with my words. If I think that that was the best analogy, I will use it. And I do not care if you try to interpret my words. I have been misinterpreted before, without meaning wrong. I am not careful with the words, and I know for sure that using the wrong ones will get you into a fight.
However, I do think we will both agree that it is a very bad idea to be both black and in Russia. I absolutely agree that it is a bad idea. However, I doubt that the problem will be in the physical violence. The real problem will be in the verbal abuse, and ignorance that you will encounter. You are not going to be attacked on the street. You will however be looked on with extreme curiosity and some fear (as most people there will stereotype you as a savage if you go there).
Yes, but how many times did they get into a muttered conference and then mug you? Tourists are the easiest pickings in Moscow, since they have no friends, no family, and no police to defend them. Therefore, to get home the point that you just can't seem to lay your finger on, its a Bad Idea to be a tourist in Moscow. I've been in places as bad as Moscow and worse, including Manila in the Philippines, but nowhere else has that distinct and unique local flavour for casual violence.
It is a bad idea to be a tourist anywhere. The wallet is a prime target. And the police does not have the time to help you. New York, London, Paris, Rome...same problem. The police will simply ignore you, and if you do not speak the language, they will end up mocking you as well. (Happened to me in Paris and Rome). I still have no clue what you mean by "unique local flavour for casual violence" though. If you are not looking for a fight, you will not get a fight.
So you are saying that without being watched over like noisy children all day every day, mankind degenerates into a brawling fist fight? Bzzzt, news flash here, the civilised world doesn't need to have police on every street corner. Thats why they call it civilised. Unlike Russia, apparently.
If I go to any city on earth where people think that police is helpless, or not going to bother with them, and then I start using the local equivalent of "otsosi", I am going to get in the fight pretty quickly do not you think. And in places where the police works, I am likely to just get insults back. Sure you do not need the police in every corner, but you need people to know that crime has a punishment. Most places in the world know this, Russia does not. That's the difference, but the people are the same.
It is also clear that this discussion is not going to go anywhere from this point, so I recommend ending it.
and you had better know Russian if you go there, tavaresh, because random passers by will beat you if you don't.
As far as I see you are claiming that it is very likely random people will beat you up for speaking foreign language.
So stop trying to make out Moscow is like anywhere else
I am not saying it is like anywhere else. All I am saying is that being a foreigner there is not a provocation to a fight on its own. The chances of getting in a fight in moscow are exponentially higher than most other places with high education levels, whether you are a local or a foreigner.
Oh, its not wall to wall beady eyes and white knuckles, you can in fact walk down the street, as long as you are white.
Unless you look Georgian, or that general area people will not bear immediate animosity. So a black person walking on the streat will be looked on with extreme curioisty. Kinda like children stare at red-assed baboons at the zoo. (no, I am not implying anything about black people, damn PC types that always look for meaning when it is not there). You know the dumbfounded, as russians would say "ovca okolo novyh vorot" (sheep at the new gate) look. Some may look down on people who look different.
Immediate violence -- no. (all bets are off in a crowd of drunks)
And I know that you want to make the claim that if you are not one of them, they will ignore you or worse, fight or make fun of you. Guess what, I have received the same treatment in western europe. Do not know the language? They ignore you, refuse to help you, etc. I have had people tell me they do not speak English, only to turn around and speak english to someone else. I have heard one waiter mock me when I said something in english. And then when it was obvious that I was going to be ignored, I said the same thing in really bad Italian.
I am not suggesting that your experiences were wrong. I am saying that russia is full of the same people that inhabit the place where you live, except in russia no one protects you but yourself, and hence you felt more threatened there.
The amount of hatred is the same no matter where you end up looking different. It is only what the people can do about it that changes.
You closed the wrong argument. We are now talking about whether 'g' or 'x' is a better approximation of 'h'.
You know it is kinda like a usenet argument that starts out as a debate about religion and then a year later the same thread is debating whether the paper in which McDonald's is wrapping their burgers comes from recycled material.
I am not talking about Irish soccer fans. I am talking about raging drunk russian soccer fans. They are not very different from any other country's drunk raging soccer fans, except more drunk. The outcome of the game is reason enough for them to attack. In fact, there have been cases when there was so much rage, that the fans turned against each other to vent it. Apparently they could not figure out which player to blame for loss.......when the supporters turned to the local police for assistance, the police did nothing for them and even asked them for money. This is not any different from how they treat locals.
When the ambulance service arrived, the crews laughed at the victims, even though they had been badly beaten. If the police did not help, the ambulance crew is certainly not going to interfere during the fight. And it did not say that the ambulance crew was not helping them, just the fact that they were laughing at them. I am certainly hoping that they were at least doing their job, even if they were laughing at them while doing it.
I had the pleasure of taking the russian ambulance once (I lived there, and I am a native speaker of russian). The article did not say when the ambulance arrived, which makes me think that it did not arrive that late. When I called for an ambulance, it took them 4 hours to get to me, because they either had a long queue of people, or were taking a smoke break. They could not decide which reason to use.
I am not going to counteract your claim that Russia is full of violence, and in general a crappy disorganized country. It is. The police are not much different from the criminals they arrest. They certainly do not feel like helping foreigners either, unless they know that heads will roll if they do not.
My only point is that if you do not speak Russian, and you are on the street talking to your buddy in whatever language, that will not cause anyone to randomly attack you.
You will need it if you are relying on a single review book to get you through. I will guarantee you that reading one review book will not help much if you are not ready for it on your own.
The only thing a review book will accomplish is to trigger some of the memories of subjects that you learned. Even if you manage to read all of the material on the subject, it is unlikely that you will remember the exact question that they will ask you.
My advice is to review what topics are covered, and what they involve. Do not bother learning details, you can do it for one topic and still remember all of them. Be ready to go from your general understanding to the specific instance of the question. It is not that hard if you had a nice university CS education.
My studying: Reviewed Many-one versus turing reduction (I kept forgetting which one was which), took the practice test in the booklet the evening before the exam.
My score: 880 (I guesstimated all of the networking questions, as I have never seen networking before, did not bother studying it either. Looking back, studying would not have helped either.)
Oh, but this was an incident involving soccer fans versus other soccer fans. In that culture it is you versus them, with at least three bottles of vodka in you, no international relations barred. These guys would do it to their own mothers if they were cheering for the other team.
I was talking about normal people in normal circumstances.
I know it does. It does not mean that it makes complete sense. Modern russian 'X' is close enough to english 'H' that I still think it is a better approximation that 'G' is.
Also, 'G' was used often when transliterating from German. I believe that 'h' in german sounds a lot more like russian 'g' than english 'h'.
I still think that a 'X' sound closer to 'H' that 'G' does.
And no, russian H is not gutteral. No hacking up involved. There are some speakers who make it gutteral, most of them are from the yiddish-speaking backgrounds. This is not how most people pronounce it. In fact gutteral 'H' will sound extremely funky to most russians.
I know that a lot of 'h' become transliterated to G's. I actually believe that is mostly due to the words that come from German, where 'h' is also more pronounced.
And yes, I agree, they should have just made it "Hata piccy", which is the translation of pizza hut.
I also know Russians...and I agree with a lot of your comment except this
you had better know Russian if you go there, tavaresh, because random passers by will beat you if you don't
No they will not (at least in Moscow). If you do not speak Russian, most people will think you are either a rich tourist or someone in politics. In either case you may be too important to get into a fight with. However, they will steal your wallet.
I do not know what people are talking about. Russian most certainly has an h. The letter is 'ha' and is written like 'X'. And it is not as strong as people claim it is. Most certainly does not warrant a KH spelling. I do not know how "pizza hut" is spelled in russia, but I will guess that they do not spell it like "picca gat", as the the second word would sound too close to a russian equivalent of "asshole" (person, not actual object).
A good transliteration of j would be 'd''zh' (stupid slashdot does not allow cyrillic easily), and is actually a good approximation of the sound.
Your "zsa" would most likely be transliterated 'zh'. So if your name is something like Jean, your wife was probably pronouncing it like you would pronounce djinn.
And if you want more fun things about cyrillic, how about the difference between 'sh' and 'shch', completely undetectable to most english speakers. Or the letter 'y', which apparently takes much practice for most english speakers, who just can not figure out how to make that sound lengthy (they can manage it if it is incredibly short).
Sigh. On the other hand, I know too many russians who can not make out the 'th' sound, even though they spoke english for 10+ years. Sigh. "Srifty Srursday" instead of "thrifty thursday" at gas stations. *shudder*
It requires very little effort from a 5 year old CPU.
The problem is not in the CPU, the problem is that sound is a realtime stream that you have to feed into the soundcard instantly. Thus the sound server has to do all of the mixing, and pass it to the sound card all the way to the next time the soundserver will run. This means no more instant start or instant pause.
In other words, any software sound servers not inside the kernel will ultimately fail.
So someone needs to develop a kernel based sound server. Dmix is in progress, and I think that is what it tries to be. It will be interesting if they add sound server capabilities to it. Instant pause feature over the network is hard to achieve.....
I will also agree with you that there is no single software mixer protocol. That is a problem. However, the good news are that these mixers are going away, and will be replaced by dmix, at least locally, which should present a transparent in-kernel sofware mixer locally. And for network, it seems that the X-server is going to incorporate something like NAS. It will still suck due to latency, but it will be there and be in the standard.
My recommendations are -- either buy a new soundcard or toy with dmix. If you have dmix set up correctly, you will be able to run NAS and ARTS together to your hearts desire. Expect crappy, laggy sound though. There is a reason why soundcards added mixing to the hardware. It is because no other method works well.
Well, mister AC, I suppose you know the difference between files and inodes. And yes, it is kept on the drive, well to be more precise, on the filesystem, i.e. it can theoretically be completely in memory, but for libraries that is uncommon.
Here is a test for you. Get a 600Mb movie file (copy, not hard link). Check the empty space on the harddrive. Open the file in a video player. Delete the file. Use ls to confirm that the file is deleted. Check the empty space again. Notice how the empty space has not increased. Close the movie player. Notice the empty space increase.
In windows, you will get the file is in use error.
And the solution is simple: re-start the applications (and not the whole machine.) Newly started apps will use the new version. If you replaced glibc, you will be restarting a lot of applications to get them all running a new version. You know, such as X server, and all your bash terminals. At this point, you might as well restart.
It doesn't need to be. Humans can differentiate sound streams.
But the sound card card can not produce multiple sound streams. It has to mix them, either in hardware or software.
But some do. This works in X. Have you run video over X? It does not work well. You can not send a bunch of decoded YUV data and still expect to be able to handle it over a network connection. That is why XVideo is a passthrough that goes around a lot of X rendering modes.
Sure there is, NAS. NAS is nice, except that it is a huge bandwidth hog. It basically uses your network as a sound cable. Furthermore, it still does not mix sounds, and is completely intolerant of packet loss and network delays. In other words it is not really a sound server, it is a socket for/dev/dsp that works over the network.
At the same time? Yes. ALSA core provides OSS interface into itself.
I am not sure what you are complaining about enymore. ESD? ARTS? These are the slow sound servers that do software mixing. Their whole purpose is to compensate for bad hardware. NAS? It is not even a server. It is just a way to pass pcm data to a/dev/dsp in some other computer. I can accomplish what it does by using a network filesystem, except that that would have TCP issues, and UDP is necessary in this case.
Perhaps you are complaining about SDL audio and OpenAL things. Those are just toolkits designed to do special processing, as well as to provide an API into arbitrary sound system. Most programs that need proper sound processing should use these.
ALSA and OSS are just two ways to input sound into the driver. Perhaps you are complaining that these look like standards, but there are two of them. The answer is they are not real standards. If you want your application to be portable, you need to use SDL-sound, openAL or some other cross-platform API.
If I still did not get your point, please reply. I want to know what exactly is wrong with linux sound (besides bad drivers, of course).
Because no one managed to accomplish such a unified interface.
Audio has very different needs from video. Video can be displayed independently of different streams, audio can not. Some video applications do not need realtime performance, or can drop frames. Audio can not. Hence there is no such thing as a good software sound server, such as X for video.
Furthermore, there are a lot of devices that in theory can support any audio, but not in reality. The driver support for many cards is too poor, so most people have to use hacks to get around the issue, which causes them to use the sound servers, which makes people think that the audio on linux is completely broken.
In reality, all these people who complain about bad sound are whiners. True, someone needs to come out and fix up the drivers for all the embedded soundcards. No, do not say sound as whole is broken. Get yourself hardware that works with linux. No more issues, both ALSA and OSS interfaces will work.
-modify, recompile and use new object code of any non-kernel module without rebooting
Bzzzt. This is a problem in linux as well. Suppose you recompile glibc. Sure the file system will happily replace the library for you, however all running application will continue to use the old library which will be kept on the hardrive until all application free it up. This is the reason why some updates in macs trigger reboots. On linux, you should reboot as well after updating glibc, or you risk using one that may potentially have security problems.
-heck, for that matter rewrite or modify any portion of the kernel and recompile it (although rebooting is needed) I agree with this point somewhat...there are things in windows you can not touch. However, windows provides hooks into the deepest parts of the kernel. And there is an SDK that allows you to build drivers that can change a lot about the internals of Windows.
-use any number of filesystem or even write your own Although difficult, it is possible to get a driver for those filesystems. There are programs that allow windows to read mac disks, and there are tools that you can use to get reiserfs on windows. A lot of these are hacks. However, unless Windows VFS is not modularized or incompatable, I do not see why the filesystems are not developed as drivers on Windows. If a Windows driver developer can chime in with how Windows VFS works, maybe we would know a real answer why I can not read my XFS partition from Windows (if I had Windows, that is)
Get the SDK. Then proceed to learn the Windows Driver Model, which is huge and complex when compared to Linux's.
On the other hand I will never say that Windows kernel is a bad piece of work. In fact, from whatever little looking I did, it seems to be much more modular than Linux's. There are more hooks with precisely defined interface that are stable, etc. With linux, everything is a lot less defined. But, hey, 10 lines of code make a device driver.
Technically, the most efficient option is to only have context menu bars everywhere. See GIMP and Dia. Funny, but most people curse at those interfaces.
Also, as far as the cursor on top of the screen. I simply make my apps fullscreen, and use virtual desktops. That way many apps can be fullscreen, and have the toolbar in the right place.
for the most part, there's no such thing as an "uninstaller" on Macintosh
That is a part of the problem. The keyword is "most". Pick one way and do it. I have seen many people just drag applications that come with uninstaller to the trash and think they are uninstalled. And for applications that you do install, how does the system keep track of uninstalling? How do installers know that the program is already there?
Stupid question, how would a package manager have helped that situation? A good package manager will tell me what is installed, and allow me to uninstall it, and if something goes wrong to allow me to zap an application. It does not rely on individual installers to decide what I have and what I do not. That smells like windows installers checking registry keys and failing for obscure reasons.
Overall, it still feels like mac software management is a free for all. A free for all is not what I want in my computer.
This nonsense is coming from American morons and Shrubby is their moron king.
Actually, this specific non-sense is pouring from the liberal side of the US governemnt. Clinton, Lieberman, etc. They have been itching to go after GTA for years, but could not as Americans love the macho gore as part of the entertainment. Thus they waited until they can make that into a "think of the children" deal.
The funny part is that I have not heard a word from the conservative side, although the religious right I am sure is on the same side. It is currently the moderate republicans and libertarians that have the most sense these days.
Oh, and do not blame the GTA deal on Prez. Shrub. He is not turning those gears in motion. Blame the nanny-state liberals for this one.
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Oops. Err, guess what, PC or not, that still very offensive. Kind of letting the undershirt show there, I think. I'll tell you what, why don't you share with the rest of us what the Russian slang for black people is, in English?
Nope. I am not a racist. I have absolutely no problem with black people. I am not sure which slang you are talking about: most Russians will use the word "chernyy", which literally means black. Newcomers will use the word "negr", which is exactly "negro" translated. The ones that are racist, or trying to demean them will use "shokoladka" or "obezyana", meaning chocolate and monkey. Is that the slang you have heard. I do not know all the Russian communities in US, perhaps another slang is used in Brighton, West Hollywood, or Chicago. I am not familiar with those large communities.
A lot of Russians are racist, I am not. However, I am very direct with my words. If I think that that was the best analogy, I will use it. And I do not care if you try to interpret my words. I have been misinterpreted before, without meaning wrong. I am not careful with the words, and I know for sure that using the wrong ones will get you into a fight.
However, I do think we will both agree that it is a very bad idea to be both black and in Russia.
I absolutely agree that it is a bad idea. However, I doubt that the problem will be in the physical violence. The real problem will be in the verbal abuse, and ignorance that you will encounter. You are not going to be attacked on the street. You will however be looked on with extreme curiosity and some fear (as most people there will stereotype you as a savage if you go there).
Yes, but how many times did they get into a muttered conference and then mug you? Tourists are the easiest pickings in Moscow, since they have no friends, no family, and no police to defend them. Therefore, to get home the point that you just can't seem to lay your finger on, its a Bad Idea to be a tourist in Moscow. I've been in places as bad as Moscow and worse, including Manila in the Philippines, but nowhere else has that distinct and unique local flavour for casual violence.
It is a bad idea to be a tourist anywhere. The wallet is a prime target. And the police does not have the time to help you. New York, London, Paris, Rome...same problem. The police will simply ignore you, and if you do not speak the language, they will end up mocking you as well. (Happened to me in Paris and Rome). I still have no clue what you mean by "unique local flavour for casual violence" though. If you are not looking for a fight, you will not get a fight.
So you are saying that without being watched over like noisy children all day every day, mankind degenerates into a brawling fist fight? Bzzzt, news flash here, the civilised world doesn't need to have police on every street corner. Thats why they call it civilised. Unlike Russia, apparently.
If I go to any city on earth where people think that police is helpless, or not going to bother with them, and then I start using the local equivalent of "otsosi", I am going to get in the fight pretty quickly do not you think. And in places where the police works, I am likely to just get insults back. Sure you do not need the police in every corner, but you need people to know that crime has a punishment. Most places in the world know this, Russia does not. That's the difference, but the people are the same.
It is also clear that this discussion is not going to go anywhere from this point, so I recommend ending it.
I do not know how to read this less narrowly.
and you had better know Russian if you go there, tavaresh, because random passers by will beat you if you don't.
As far as I see you are claiming that it is very likely random people will beat you up for speaking foreign language.
So stop trying to make out Moscow is like anywhere else
I am not saying it is like anywhere else. All I am saying is that being a foreigner there is not a provocation to a fight on its own. The chances of getting in a fight in moscow are exponentially higher than most other places with high education levels, whether you are a local or a foreigner.
Oh, its not wall to wall beady eyes and white knuckles, you can in fact walk down the street, as long as you are white.
Unless you look Georgian, or that general area people will not bear immediate animosity. So a black person walking on the streat will be looked on with extreme curioisty. Kinda like children stare at red-assed baboons at the zoo. (no, I am not implying anything about black people, damn PC types that always look for meaning when it is not there). You know the dumbfounded, as russians would say "ovca okolo novyh vorot" (sheep at the new gate) look. Some may look down on people who look different.
Immediate violence -- no. (all bets are off in a crowd of drunks)
And I know that you want to make the claim that if you are not one of them, they will ignore you or worse, fight or make fun of you. Guess what, I have received the same treatment in western europe. Do not know the language? They ignore you, refuse to help you, etc. I have had people tell me they do not speak English, only to turn around and speak english to someone else. I have heard one waiter mock me when I said something in english. And then when it was obvious that I was going to be ignored, I said the same thing in really bad Italian.
I am not suggesting that your experiences were wrong. I am saying that russia is full of the same people that inhabit the place where you live, except in russia no one protects you but yourself, and hence you felt more threatened there.
The amount of hatred is the same no matter where you end up looking different. It is only what the people can do about it that changes.
You closed the wrong argument. We are now talking about whether 'g' or 'x' is a better approximation of 'h'.
You know it is kinda like a usenet argument that starts out as a debate about religion and then a year later the same thread is debating whether the paper in which McDonald's is wrapping their burgers comes from recycled material.
I am not talking about Irish soccer fans. I am talking about raging drunk russian soccer fans. They are not very different from any other country's drunk raging soccer fans, except more drunk. The outcome of the game is reason enough for them to attack. In fact, there have been cases when there was so much rage, that the fans turned against each other to vent it. Apparently they could not figure out which player to blame for loss.... ...when the supporters turned to the local police for assistance, the police did nothing for them and even asked them for money.
This is not any different from how they treat locals.
When the ambulance service arrived, the crews laughed at the victims, even though they had been badly beaten.
If the police did not help, the ambulance crew is certainly not going to interfere during the fight. And it did not say that the ambulance crew was not helping them, just the fact that they were laughing at them. I am certainly hoping that they were at least doing their job, even if they were laughing at them while doing it.
I had the pleasure of taking the russian ambulance once (I lived there, and I am a native speaker of russian). The article did not say when the ambulance arrived, which makes me think that it did not arrive that late. When I called for an ambulance, it took them 4 hours to get to me, because they either had a long queue of people, or were taking a smoke break. They could not decide which reason to use.
I am not going to counteract your claim that Russia is full of violence, and in general a crappy disorganized country. It is. The police are not much different from the criminals they arrest. They certainly do not feel like helping foreigners either, unless they know that heads will roll if they do not.
My only point is that if you do not speak Russian, and you are on the street talking to your buddy in whatever language, that will not cause anyone to randomly attack you.
You will need it if you are relying on a single review book to get you through. I will guarantee you that reading one review book will not help much if you are not ready for it on your own.
The only thing a review book will accomplish is to trigger some of the memories of subjects that you learned. Even if you manage to read all of the material on the subject, it is unlikely that you will remember the exact question that they will ask you.
My advice is to review what topics are covered, and what they involve. Do not bother learning details, you can do it for one topic and still remember all of them. Be ready to go from your general understanding to the specific instance of the question. It is not that hard if you had a nice university CS education.
My studying: Reviewed Many-one versus turing reduction (I kept forgetting which one was which), took the practice test in the booklet the evening before the exam.
My score: 880 (I guesstimated all of the networking questions, as I have never seen networking before, did not bother studying it either. Looking back, studying would not have helped either.)
Supposedly the best way to learn how to pronounce a yeri is to put a pen in your mouth, stick your tounge to it, and try to say "eeee."
Excellent tip.
Anyway, "th" is supposedly nearly impossible to get right unless you've lived in an english-speaking country before the age of 18.
I think it is possible, but only if someone constantly corrects you and makes you pronounce it correctly every time.
Oh, but this was an incident involving soccer fans versus other soccer fans. In that culture it is you versus them, with at least three bottles of vodka in you, no international relations barred. These guys would do it to their own mothers if they were cheering for the other team.
I was talking about normal people in normal circumstances.
I know it does. It does not mean that it makes complete sense. Modern russian 'X' is close enough to english 'H' that I still think it is a better approximation that 'G' is.
Also, 'G' was used often when transliterating from German. I believe that 'h' in german sounds a lot more like russian 'g' than english 'h'.
I still think that a 'X' sound closer to 'H' that 'G' does.
And no, russian H is not gutteral. No hacking up involved. There are some speakers who make it gutteral, most of them are from the yiddish-speaking backgrounds. This is not how most people pronounce it. In fact gutteral 'H' will sound extremely funky to most russians.
I know that a lot of 'h' become transliterated to G's. I actually believe that is mostly due to the words that come from German, where 'h' is also more pronounced.
And yes, I agree, they should have just made it "Hata piccy", which is the translation of pizza hut.
I also know Russians...and I agree with a lot of your comment except this
you had better know Russian if you go there, tavaresh, because random passers by will beat you if you don't
No they will not (at least in Moscow). If you do not speak Russian, most people will think you are either a rich tourist or someone in politics. In either case you may be too important to get into a fight with. However, they will steal your wallet.
I do not know what people are talking about. Russian most certainly has an h. The letter is 'ha' and is written like 'X'. And it is not as strong as people claim it is. Most certainly does not warrant a KH spelling. I do not know how "pizza hut" is spelled in russia, but I will guess that they do not spell it like "picca gat", as the the second word would sound too close to a russian equivalent of "asshole" (person, not actual object).
A good transliteration of j would be 'd''zh' (stupid slashdot does not allow cyrillic easily), and is actually a good approximation of the sound.
Your "zsa" would most likely be transliterated 'zh'. So if your name is something like Jean, your wife was probably pronouncing it like you would pronounce djinn.
And if you want more fun things about cyrillic, how about the difference between 'sh' and 'shch', completely undetectable to most english speakers.
Or the letter 'y', which apparently takes much practice for most english speakers, who just can not figure out how to make that sound lengthy (they can manage it if it is incredibly short).
Sigh. On the other hand, I know too many russians who can not make out the 'th' sound, even though they spoke english for 10+ years. Sigh. "Srifty Srursday" instead of "thrifty thursday" at gas stations. *shudder*
For Linux that is.
I, for one, welcome our new anti-piracy overlords.
I stand corrected. NAS does mixing.
It requires very little effort from a 5 year old CPU.
The problem is not in the CPU, the problem is that sound is a realtime stream that you have to feed into the soundcard instantly. Thus the sound server has to do all of the mixing, and pass it to the sound card all the way to the next time the soundserver will run. This means no more instant start or instant pause.
In other words, any software sound servers not inside the kernel will ultimately fail.
So someone needs to develop a kernel based sound server. Dmix is in progress, and I think that is what it tries to be. It will be interesting if they add sound server capabilities to it. Instant pause feature over the network is hard to achieve.....
I will also agree with you that there is no single software mixer protocol. That is a problem. However, the good news are that these mixers are going away, and will be replaced by dmix, at least locally, which should present a transparent in-kernel sofware mixer locally. And for network, it seems that the X-server is going to incorporate something like NAS. It will still suck due to latency, but it will be there and be in the standard.
My recommendations are -- either buy a new soundcard or toy with dmix. If you have dmix set up correctly, you will be able to run NAS and ARTS together to your hearts desire. Expect crappy, laggy sound though. There is a reason why soundcards added mixing to the hardware. It is because no other method works well.
Well, mister AC, I suppose you know the difference between files and inodes. And yes, it is kept on the drive, well to be more precise, on the filesystem, i.e. it can theoretically be completely in memory, but for libraries that is uncommon.
Here is a test for you. Get a 600Mb movie file (copy, not hard link). Check the empty space on the harddrive. Open the file in a video player. Delete the file. Use ls to confirm that the file is deleted. Check the empty space again. Notice how the empty space has not increased. Close the movie player. Notice the empty space increase.
In windows, you will get the file is in use error.
And the solution is simple: re-start the applications (and not the whole machine.) Newly started apps will use the new version.
If you replaced glibc, you will be restarting a lot of applications to get them all running a new version. You know, such as X server, and all your bash terminals. At this point, you might as well restart.
It doesn't need to be. Humans can differentiate sound streams.
/dev/dsp that works over the network.
/dev/dsp in some other computer. I can accomplish what it does by using a network filesystem, except that that would have TCP issues, and UDP is necessary in this case.
But the sound card card can not produce multiple sound streams. It has to mix them, either in hardware or software.
But some do. This works in X.
Have you run video over X? It does not work well. You can not send a bunch of decoded YUV data and still expect to be able to handle it over a network connection. That is why XVideo is a passthrough that goes around a lot of X rendering modes.
Sure there is, NAS.
NAS is nice, except that it is a huge bandwidth hog. It basically uses your network as a sound cable. Furthermore, it still does not mix sounds, and is completely intolerant of packet loss and network delays. In other words it is not really a sound server, it is a socket for
At the same time?
Yes. ALSA core provides OSS interface into itself.
I am not sure what you are complaining about enymore. ESD? ARTS? These are the slow sound servers that do software mixing. Their whole purpose is to compensate for bad hardware. NAS? It is not even a server. It is just a way to pass pcm data to a
Perhaps you are complaining about SDL audio and OpenAL things. Those are just toolkits designed to do special processing, as well as to provide an API into arbitrary sound system. Most programs that need proper sound processing should use these.
ALSA and OSS are just two ways to input sound into the driver. Perhaps you are complaining that these look like standards, but there are two of them. The answer is they are not real standards. If you want your application to be portable, you need to use SDL-sound, openAL or some other cross-platform API.
If I still did not get your point, please reply. I want to know what exactly is wrong with linux sound (besides bad drivers, of course).
Because no one managed to accomplish such a unified interface.
Audio has very different needs from video. Video can be displayed independently of different streams, audio can not. Some video applications do not need realtime performance, or can drop frames. Audio can not. Hence there is no such thing as a good software sound server, such as X for video.
Furthermore, there are a lot of devices that in theory can support any audio, but not in reality. The driver support for many cards is too poor, so most people have to use hacks to get around the issue, which causes them to use the sound servers, which makes people think that the audio on linux is completely broken.
In reality, all these people who complain about bad sound are whiners. True, someone needs to come out and fix up the drivers for all the embedded soundcards. No, do not say sound as whole is broken. Get yourself hardware that works with linux. No more issues, both ALSA and OSS interfaces will work.
-modify, recompile and use new object code of any non-kernel module without rebooting
Bzzzt. This is a problem in linux as well. Suppose you recompile glibc. Sure the file system will happily replace the library for you, however all running application will continue to use the old library which will be kept on the hardrive until all application free it up. This is the reason why some updates in macs trigger reboots. On linux, you should reboot as well after updating glibc, or you risk using one that may potentially have security problems.
-heck, for that matter rewrite or modify any portion of the kernel and recompile it (although rebooting is needed)
I agree with this point somewhat...there are things in windows you can not touch. However, windows provides hooks into the deepest parts of the kernel. And there is an SDK that allows you to build drivers that can change a lot about the internals of Windows.
-use any number of filesystem or even write your own
Although difficult, it is possible to get a driver for those filesystems. There are programs that allow windows to read mac disks, and there are tools that you can use to get reiserfs on windows. A lot of these are hacks. However, unless Windows VFS is not modularized or incompatable, I do not see why the filesystems are not developed as drivers on Windows. If a Windows driver developer can chime in with how Windows VFS works, maybe we would know a real answer why I can not read my XFS partition from Windows (if I had Windows, that is)
Get the SDK. Then proceed to learn the Windows Driver Model, which is huge and complex when compared to Linux's.
On the other hand I will never say that Windows kernel is a bad piece of work. In fact, from whatever little looking I did, it seems to be much more modular than Linux's. There are more hooks with precisely defined interface that are stable, etc. With linux, everything is a lot less defined. But, hey, 10 lines of code make a device driver.
I am not sure which model is better.
Technically, the most efficient option is to only have context menu bars everywhere. See GIMP and Dia. Funny, but most people curse at those interfaces.
Also, as far as the cursor on top of the screen. I simply make my apps fullscreen, and use virtual desktops. That way many apps can be fullscreen, and have the toolbar in the right place.
How about giving a choice. Just because you can not handle it does not mean other people can not like it and find it more productive.
for the most part, there's no such thing as an "uninstaller" on Macintosh
That is a part of the problem. The keyword is "most". Pick one way and do it. I have seen many people just drag applications that come with uninstaller to the trash and think they are uninstalled. And for applications that you do install, how does the system keep track of uninstalling? How do installers know that the program is already there?
Stupid question, how would a package manager have helped that situation?
A good package manager will tell me what is installed, and allow me to uninstall it, and if something goes wrong to allow me to zap an application. It does not rely on individual installers to decide what I have and what I do not. That smells like windows installers checking registry keys and failing for obscure reasons.
Overall, it still feels like mac software management is a free for all. A free for all is not what I want in my computer.
But in Europe most Labour parties are screwing labourers.
Do not know if that is any better...
After a quck search, we did that. I figured that is exactly what the Receipts directory was for. However, same error persisted.
This nonsense is coming from American morons and Shrubby is their moron king.
Actually, this specific non-sense is pouring from the liberal side of the US governemnt. Clinton, Lieberman, etc. They have been itching to go after GTA for years, but could not as Americans love the macho gore as part of the entertainment. Thus they waited until they can make that into a "think of the children" deal.
The funny part is that I have not heard a word from the conservative side, although the religious right I am sure is on the same side. It is currently the moderate republicans and libertarians that have the most sense these days.
Oh, and do not blame the GTA deal on Prez. Shrub. He is not turning those gears in motion. Blame the nanny-state liberals for this one.