everyone tried to warn me about that when i was setting up my raid 0 config, bla bla bla losing one drive means you lose everything, but my reply has always been that if i wasn't using raid 0 and just had 1 HD, losing 1 HD would mean losing all my data anyway..
I've had this arguement with so many musicians with the whole analog tape vs digital, and tubes vs trans for amps, and its really a dead end conversation, no matter what i say, they will swear by the "warm" sound of tube amps and analog tapes, and whatever they say, i will be a strong supporter of digital recording and transistor amps.
my feeling is if you eq your sound right before it hits the speakers, you can make it as warm as you want, and my crate 120 is as warm as i need it to be without having to replace tubes in the middle of a jam, and getting a forklift to carry it around. as for digital recording, my view is "crap in, crap out", so if you dount sound good on a digital recording, you might wanna look at what you're recordng..
none of that is meant to be a troll, its 100% oppinion, and no amount of research, facts, or proof will sway a hard ingrained oppinion. you might as well argue over who's team is the best, or who's God exists. whats the next arguement on slashdot? vannilla or chocolate?
i dont want to get off on a tangent here, but your points about lasers and explosions are things that i call "too much reality" that would actually take away from the entertainment.. we are men, we like to see and hear things explode, its genetic... if theres no sound, half the entertainment is gone, even if it WOULD be more realistic... and a fire fight between 2 ships with lasers you cant actually see? well thats just ballet.. twisting and turning, and flying around...
how much would you really enjoy an rpg game if your characters had to stop every 4 to 6 hours to eat, or go take a crap in the middle of a fight? oh you gained 13 experience points for washing your clothes..
theres realism, and then theres too much realism.. and i would bet any money any scifi built on too much realism would not succeed... "yeah i hate this show, its so boring, but i'll watch it cause it follows the laws of physics"
actually the gf and i saw something on tv 2 days ago about this.. and this is how i think it should go...
set up a meeting with all the carrier companies. if one doesnt attend, they give up their rights to have a say in it. propose 1 of 2 solutions for the companies to vote on
1) nextel gets the new frequencies for free because the emergency services need the ones nextel already has, and they shouldnt have to pay for having something taken away from them - yes they get better frequencies for free, its called compensation for them having to pay to move all their services to a new frenquency
2) if thats not good enough for the other companies, and they wanna be childish about it (they got more frequencies than we did, and for free, wah wah wah!) then i propose nextel keeps the frequencies they have, the emegency services move to the new frequencies, and all the carriers collectively pay for the move, ie: new hardware for every state trooper in the country. such is the price for pety jealousies and selfishness.
i remember readng an article once that said if battery technology had advanced over the last 50 years as fast as electronics has (smaller/more power) that by today, a battery the size of a watch battery would be able to power your house.
its nice to see any kind of advancement in the powercell area
ok so they provided evidence that the alleged infringers had copyrighted music in their possesion, that they were on a p2p file sharing service, and they put the files in a shared folder making it accessible to other p2p users, and the judge ruled this to be 100% legal..
im sorry if im comming off as a little daft here, but i fail to see what kind of evidence or plan of attack they would be able to come up with that would prove the "infringers" broke canadian law.. they covered everything, the judge ruled it legal...
unless the recording industry can come up with some kind of evidence showing that the accused actually forced the mp3's to be downloaded by other users, or something similarly ridiculous, i dont see how they can make any come back....
ok, copy a large file from one ide drive to another, or even one partition to another, while watching your cpu usage, and when it spikes to 98% (give or take) then tell me that again.. i wasnt commenting on the io being slow, but on the huge bog in the system during moderate disk access. and you can correct me if im wrong, but i was lead to believe that even a raid controler wont reduce the cpu overhead by much. of course, never having owned one, all i can do is repeat what i've heard and talk out of my ass.
i know some of the things i mention are sort of available now, but im not talking about having a work station, im speaking of an actual i386 system.. im talking about more power. im talking about upgradability, being able to add faster CPU's and more ram to any part of your system where it may be lacking. graphics not performing well enough? get a faster cpu for it and throw another 128mb ram in it without having to buy a whole new videocard.
now, gfx accelleration? i really mean i would love to see a gfx card running a 3ghz GPU. what they have out now is geat, but im a power user, so that means my phylosophy in life is "if its on the market, its not fast enough anymore" i want more.
if you dont know what i want the "silly" ram drive for, then you obviously havent used windows.. you'll find more performance comming out of a windows box if it has 512 megs ram and its swap file hosted on a ram drive than it will with 1.5 gigs of ram and a regular disk swap, or even dissabled swap. windows is very sloppy when it comes to managing its ram, and depends on its swap file, and thats when your bottleneck happens.. you can dissable the swap file, but then you'll need to either reboot every few days to clear the ram, or not use your computer for anything. the ram dive gives you the speed you want of ram, but tricks windows into using it responsibly. Plus i might want to use my entire (hypothetical) 2 gigs of ram and still have a ram drive to boot. and maybe im a little crazy, but i'd love to try booting my os directly from a battery protected ram drive.
yeah yeah dump on me for being a windows user, but for the whole combination of things i do, i find im more productive if im working rather than trying to figure how to get work done.
but thanks a mil for that link, i never heard of such a product actually being sold, i think i'll add it to my irresponsibility-binge list. but the idea of having the actual slots was more of a recycling idea to re-use old ram.. i already have sticks of pc2700 collecting dust, and i just feel like im throwing away money if i sell it for the going rate (since i paid way more than that for it) i'd feel better if i was using it for something.
ok and one last note here, being a musician who does alot of multi track recording on my pc, dont tell me that my sound card accelleration is "good enough", just try to lay down another track on a multitrack project playing back 12+ stereo 44.1khz wav's at the same time. for those who dont use their pc for recording, imagine a good ol game of unreal 2003, with all the gfx maxed, and 62 players jump into your FOV. (maybe im exagerating, but not by much)
and the final question you must be asking of why the hell would i want all that if i was rich, i could drop the ide drives and go to scsi, i could afford the newest video card the minute the prototype is built, etc, etc.. but my ideas arent just for me, its for everyone like me, who cant afford the best all the time, and harbors a DEEP resentment to chip manufactures, mother board designers, and ther rest of the companies who change 3 pins on their design and so my next upgrade will require a whole new motherboard, ram, cpu, and psu, etc, etc.. know what i mean? innovation in the areas i was thinking about would benifit everyone. (except monopolistic companies who extort needless hardware sales through jumping from slot to socket to socket with 2 more pins, to cresent shape cpu's etcetera)
you tell me where i can find a multi processor system where theres an AMD 64 main cpu, raid-0 ram configuration, p4E cpu taking care of all disk i/o with absolutely no over head on the main chip for ide drives, with another 3GHz processor taking care of all graphics processes, another one for sound, and another one for the rest of the I/O devices, and i'll buy it...
oh and a pci card or something with SDRam or DDR slots on it (for upgradability) to act as a ram drive (for use with the swap file, frequently accessed files, cache, and the sort)
yup.. i still dream of the day where i'm so rich i can afford little wierd experiments.. like having someone build me a motherboard where theres a main 64bit cpu which delegates the processing to the IO cpu, and the graphics bus CPU, and the sound cpu, etc, etc... where ram is configued in a raid-0 aray for insane amounts of speed...
you laugh, but alot of the "developers" i've met actually don't code their apps from the ground up. Many of them couldn't even if they tried. It's almost become accepted practice in some circles to just google for source code that does something similar to what you need and then cut and paste the parts into your app, then recode it (change variable names, subs/functions) to work together with the whole program...
is this what they had in mind when they brought out the whole idea of reusable code? or is it a good concept gone to extremes?
There seems to be some kind of twisted logic among companies who make any device or softwae for the dissabled that if you're deaf or blind, then you must be wealthy, right? everything i see that was made to make a person with dissablilities life better/easier costs an arm and a leg.
My girlfriend is deaf. My phone cost me $20 at walmart.. hers cost $500 (TTY).. we live in a security building with a buzzer entrance.. guess how she knows someone is at the door? she cant.. the system we'd need to install to alert her that someone is at the door is for the moment way out of our financial means. everything thats made for people with dissabilities is horribly expensive.
this isnt just about a screen reader for mac, i'd like to see some discussion about accessibility in general.. on the side of software.. i got this game once, its was an RTS, and my GF loved it, and we used to play it alot together.. but the problem is, whever she gets attacked, it would make a sound, she wouldnt hear it, and totally get her ass kicked in the game.. i wrote the company an email about it, citing these issues, suggested that it would be easy to put in their next patch some options for deaf players, to have a more visible on-screen visual alert rather than depending on audio alerts only.. got an auto reply about thanks for writing, that was it.. since then they've released 3 patches for the game, and to date, none of those features have been included. suffice to say, we no longer play the game anymore, she became too frustrated by haivng to rely on the sounds.
personally i feel when a software creater makes something with audio only alerts on anything, game or not, where you have to hear the sound to interact with the software properly, ok i can understand if they didnt think about it, its forgivable.. but when they're made aware of it, and fail to respond in anyway, (say to explain why they cant do this, or that they'd like to and will work on trying it) then they might as well just reply "im sorry sir, we dont want any your kind using our software, which is why we don't care about your concerns, now please move to the back of the bus"
i guess that was a step up from MSDos 2.0 [On April 2 1987, IBM officially introduces a new family of personal computers: the PS/2-series. Starting with the 30 series (8086 CPU)]
Borland(R) Kylix(TM) 3 Open Edition delivers an integrated ANSI/ISO C++ and Delphi(TM) language solution for building powerful open-source applications for Linux,(R) licensed under the GNU General Public License. (from the website)
its only "not free" if you're developing closed source for comercial use.. last i heard, gnome and KDE were open source, so i don't see how that conflicts with anything here
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everyone tried to warn me about that when i was setting up my raid 0 config, bla bla bla losing one drive means you lose everything, but my reply has always been that if i wasn't using raid 0 and just had 1 HD, losing 1 HD would mean losing all my data anyway..
I've had this arguement with so many musicians with the whole analog tape vs digital, and tubes vs trans for amps, and its really a dead end conversation, no matter what i say, they will swear by the "warm" sound of tube amps and analog tapes, and whatever they say, i will be a strong supporter of digital recording and transistor amps.
my feeling is if you eq your sound right before it hits the speakers, you can make it as warm as you want, and my crate 120 is as warm as i need it to be without having to replace tubes in the middle of a jam, and getting a forklift to carry it around. as for digital recording, my view is "crap in, crap out", so if you dount sound good on a digital recording, you might wanna look at what you're recordng..
none of that is meant to be a troll, its 100% oppinion, and no amount of research, facts, or proof will sway a hard ingrained oppinion. you might as well argue over who's team is the best, or who's God exists. whats the next arguement on slashdot? vannilla or chocolate?
everyone knows PC guys wont talk to mac guys, unless its to make fun on them /im not serious, have a sense of humor
You auhor PDF files??
Painful death to you
i dont want to get off on a tangent here, but your points about lasers and explosions are things that i call "too much reality" that would actually take away from the entertainment.. we are men, we like to see and hear things explode, its genetic... if theres no sound, half the entertainment is gone, even if it WOULD be more realistic... and a fire fight between 2 ships with lasers you cant actually see? well thats just ballet.. twisting and turning, and flying around...
how much would you really enjoy an rpg game if your characters had to stop every 4 to 6 hours to eat, or go take a crap in the middle of a fight? oh you gained 13 experience points for washing your clothes..
theres realism, and then theres too much realism.. and i would bet any money any scifi built on too much realism would not succeed... "yeah i hate this show, its so boring, but i'll watch it cause it follows the laws of physics"
if only AMD had been able to sneak in a few cyrix chips as their new easier-to-reverse-engineer edition 64bit chips....
actually the gf and i saw something on tv 2 days ago about this.. and this is how i think it should go...
set up a meeting with all the carrier companies. if one doesnt attend, they give up their rights to have a say in it. propose 1 of 2 solutions for the companies to vote on
1) nextel gets the new frequencies for free because the emergency services need the ones nextel already has, and they shouldnt have to pay for having something taken away from them - yes they get better frequencies for free, its called compensation for them having to pay to move all their services to a new frenquency
2) if thats not good enough for the other companies, and they wanna be childish about it (they got more frequencies than we did, and for free, wah wah wah!) then i propose nextel keeps the frequencies they have, the emegency services move to the new frequencies, and all the carriers collectively pay for the move, ie: new hardware for every state trooper in the country. such is the price for pety jealousies and selfishness.
This product might be the solution you need
i remember readng an article once that said if battery technology had advanced over the last 50 years as fast as electronics has (smaller/more power) that by today, a battery the size of a watch battery would be able to power your house.
its nice to see any kind of advancement in the powercell area
i dont know much if anythign about electron beams, but this part sorta disturbs me:
Acceleration voltage: 50kV - (50,000 Volts?)
does that mean i'll have to move my pc to the kitchen so i can plug my cdrom into the stove outlet?
no...
SCO + Sun + MS = SCuMS
just stay away from scott.. he's a real dick
ok so they provided evidence that the alleged infringers had copyrighted music in their possesion, that they were on a p2p file sharing service, and they put the files in a shared folder making it accessible to other p2p users, and the judge ruled this to be 100% legal..
im sorry if im comming off as a little daft here, but i fail to see what kind of evidence or plan of attack they would be able to come up with that would prove the "infringers" broke canadian law.. they covered everything, the judge ruled it legal...
unless the recording industry can come up with some kind of evidence showing that the accused actually forced the mp3's to be downloaded by other users, or something similarly ridiculous, i dont see how they can make any come back....
my GOD i never shut up, do i?
sorry
ok, copy a large file from one ide drive to another, or even one partition to another, while watching your cpu usage, and when it spikes to 98% (give or take) then tell me that again.. i wasnt commenting on the io being slow, but on the huge bog in the system during moderate disk access. and you can correct me if im wrong, but i was lead to believe that even a raid controler wont reduce the cpu overhead by much. of course, never having owned one, all i can do is repeat what i've heard and talk out of my ass.
i know some of the things i mention are sort of available now, but im not talking about having a work station, im speaking of an actual i386 system.. im talking about more power. im talking about upgradability, being able to add faster CPU's and more ram to any part of your system where it may be lacking. graphics not performing well enough? get a faster cpu for it and throw another 128mb ram in it without having to buy a whole new videocard.
now, gfx accelleration? i really mean i would love to see a gfx card running a 3ghz GPU. what they have out now is geat, but im a power user, so that means my phylosophy in life is "if its on the market, its not fast enough anymore" i want more.
if you dont know what i want the "silly" ram drive for, then you obviously havent used windows.. you'll find more performance comming out of a windows box if it has 512 megs ram and its swap file hosted on a ram drive than it will with 1.5 gigs of ram and a regular disk swap, or even dissabled swap. windows is very sloppy when it comes to managing its ram, and depends on its swap file, and thats when your bottleneck happens.. you can dissable the swap file, but then you'll need to either reboot every few days to clear the ram, or not use your computer for anything. the ram dive gives you the speed you want of ram, but tricks windows into using it responsibly. Plus i might want to use my entire (hypothetical) 2 gigs of ram and still have a ram drive to boot. and maybe im a little crazy, but i'd love to try booting my os directly from a battery protected ram drive.
yeah yeah dump on me for being a windows user, but for the whole combination of things i do, i find im more productive if im working rather than trying to figure how to get work done.
but thanks a mil for that link, i never heard of such a product actually being sold, i think i'll add it to my irresponsibility-binge list. but the idea of having the actual slots was more of a recycling idea to re-use old ram.. i already have sticks of pc2700 collecting dust, and i just feel like im throwing away money if i sell it for the going rate (since i paid way more than that for it) i'd feel better if i was using it for something.
ok and one last note here, being a musician who does alot of multi track recording on my pc, dont tell me that my sound card accelleration is "good enough", just try to lay down another track on a multitrack project playing back 12+ stereo 44.1khz wav's at the same time. for those who dont use their pc for recording, imagine a good ol game of unreal 2003, with all the gfx maxed, and 62 players jump into your FOV. (maybe im exagerating, but not by much)
and the final question you must be asking of why the hell would i want all that if i was rich, i could drop the ide drives and go to scsi, i could afford the newest video card the minute the prototype is built, etc, etc.. but my ideas arent just for me, its for everyone like me, who cant afford the best all the time, and harbors a DEEP resentment to chip manufactures, mother board designers, and ther rest of the companies who change 3 pins on their design and so my next upgrade will require a whole new motherboard, ram, cpu, and psu, etc, etc.. know what i mean? innovation in the areas i was thinking about would benifit everyone. (except monopolistic companies who extort needless hardware sales through jumping from slot to socket to socket with 2 more pins, to cresent shape cpu's etcetera)
I'm sorry, are you talking about army troops, or a circus troupe?
you tell me where i can find a multi processor system where theres an AMD 64 main cpu, raid-0 ram configuration, p4E cpu taking care of all disk i/o with absolutely no over head on the main chip for ide drives, with another 3GHz processor taking care of all graphics processes, another one for sound, and another one for the rest of the I/O devices, and i'll buy it...
oh and a pci card or something with SDRam or DDR slots on it (for upgradability) to act as a ram drive (for use with the swap file, frequently accessed files, cache, and the sort)
yup.. i still dream of the day where i'm so rich i can afford little wierd experiments.. like having someone build me a motherboard where theres a main 64bit cpu which delegates the processing to the IO cpu, and the graphics bus CPU, and the sound cpu, etc, etc... where ram is configued in a raid-0 aray for insane amounts of speed...
you laugh, but alot of the "developers" i've met actually don't code their apps from the ground up. Many of them couldn't even if they tried. It's almost become accepted practice in some circles to just google for source code that does something similar to what you need and then cut and paste the parts into your app, then recode it (change variable names, subs/functions) to work together with the whole program...
is this what they had in mind when they brought out the whole idea of reusable code? or is it a good concept gone to extremes?
Its ok he's dead now, we're safe...
AAAHHH!!! there he is again!!!
*stab* *stab* *stab*
ok now he's dead for sure this time... we can go on with our lives
AAAHHH!!! there he is again!!!
*stab* *stab* *stab*
and etc
Quite right.
There seems to be some kind of twisted logic among companies who make any device or softwae for the dissabled that if you're deaf or blind, then you must be wealthy, right? everything i see that was made to make a person with dissablilities life better/easier costs an arm and a leg.
My girlfriend is deaf. My phone cost me $20 at walmart.. hers cost $500 (TTY).. we live in a security building with a buzzer entrance.. guess how she knows someone is at the door? she cant.. the system we'd need to install to alert her that someone is at the door is for the moment way out of our financial means. everything thats made for people with dissabilities is horribly expensive.
this isnt just about a screen reader for mac, i'd like to see some discussion about accessibility in general.. on the side of software.. i got this game once, its was an RTS, and my GF loved it, and we used to play it alot together.. but the problem is, whever she gets attacked, it would make a sound, she wouldnt hear it, and totally get her ass kicked in the game.. i wrote the company an email about it, citing these issues, suggested that it would be easy to put in their next patch some options for deaf players, to have a more visible on-screen visual alert rather than depending on audio alerts only.. got an auto reply about thanks for writing, that was it.. since then they've released 3 patches for the game, and to date, none of those features have been included. suffice to say, we no longer play the game anymore, she became too frustrated by haivng to rely on the sounds.
personally i feel when a software creater makes something with audio only alerts on anything, game or not, where you have to hear the sound to interact with the software properly, ok i can understand if they didnt think about it, its forgivable.. but when they're made aware of it, and fail to respond in anyway, (say to explain why they cant do this, or that they'd like to and will work on trying it) then they might as well just reply "im sorry sir, we dont want any your kind using our software, which is why we don't care about your concerns, now please move to the back of the bus"
thats just my take on it.
not everyone has discovered google yet...
I personally think all search engines should have as the first hit:
Results:
1) Seach for this on Google, Dumbass Acuracy - 100%"There are currently 17 people partying in 8 different parties"
hmm 2.125 people per party... higher turnout than i expected
wow '86?
i guess that was a step up from MSDos 2.0 [On April 2 1987, IBM officially introduces a new family of personal computers: the PS/2-series. Starting with the 30 series (8086 CPU)]
Borland(R) Kylix(TM) 3 Open Edition delivers an integrated ANSI/ISO C++ and Delphi(TM) language solution for building powerful open-source applications for Linux,(R) licensed under the GNU General Public License. (from the website)
its only "not free" if you're developing closed source for comercial use.. last i heard, gnome and KDE were open source, so i don't see how that conflicts with anything here