Cool thought, but your Algothrithm needs a little work. First, most audio cds contain less than 74 minutes of audio. I'll come up with a random number here to take a guess... 50 minutes. Given that 50 is 6756768E-6 of 74, we find that 43918919E-5 is the raw size of these cd images on random average, and the Flac compression rate: 5E-1 of that would be: 21959459E-5 MB. That puts the total size at 71368243E-3 MB or 71368.243E-4 GB
As you can clearly see, it's much simpler to do this whole documentation using scientific notation, and it's gotta be with the capital E.
Thanks for replying and explaining this. I can see how you are correct now. Granted, there isn't much demand for 2d performance, and that's probably why they can get away with this.
Perhaps if your post was more specific I could relate to it better. For example, when using Xfree86, I've noticed a very large difference in speed between the Rage Pro, and Radeon. The Rage Pro was good, as I said, but a radeon system doesn't flood the CPU even when moving huge windows (opaque), and it's very fast. Of course, this is on Linux. Windows doesn't use a lot of 2d accelleration, at least when compared to xfree86. moving windows is all edges only by default, and there's minimal drawing. OS X does a lot of neat blends and this brings in a lot of 2d accelleration, but when you start up windows with a mach64, or a radeon, you wont notice any difference until you try to run UT.
PC-to-Phone calls are still not ready on Linux, and they cost money to do. According to the GnomeMeeting FAQ: Step 3: Register a MicroTelco account on http://www.linuxjack.com.
However, when you go to linuxjack.com, it says that they will be adding accounts for MicroTelco on their site SOON (marketing word for "whenever"), and you can't just use a regular MicroTelco account like you would on Windows.
This is only really good news if you'd use voip-voip, or if all this proprietary technology actually works.
Mostly 2d performance has been "Ok" scince the ATI Rage Pro. Windows doesn't really use 2d accelleration, and that's a big problem for wide acceptance. 2d performance is actually moving more in the 3d direction, at least for Enlightenment, wit h their newest engine that is still unreleased. It does seem like a really cool idea though. Enough ranting.
RBL blocks a lot of stuff that isn't spam. It's probably a better idea to go with bayesian filtering. You can read up on it here: http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html
granted, that's correct, the way people usually talk about memory "modules", I thought this was the same thing. The same point applies though, and I really don't think that 1gb modules come with 32mb chips, but I'm too unlucky to have ever seen one, so your guess is as good as mine.
32mb dram chips are not produced at all any more. For this research to be of any use at all it needs to be more current. Why? because, it doesn't take 16x as much resources to make a 256mb dram chip as it does to make a 32mb chip.
What to do about it? Dont buy ram in small quantities. Buy the biggest chip on the market (currently 1gb for most modern platforms). This will also help costs for these new chips
That said, I wouldn't think about going that extreme, (you can buy 3-4 512mb chips for the price of 1 1gb chip) but I wouldn't buy 64mb either.
THAT wasn't my point. IF YOU ARE PAYING $100 OR MORE FOR A CONNECTION IT BETTER BE A T1!
Not that a T1 is only worth $100, but nothing sub-t1 is worth that.
Who really gives a care about XML Schema, or DTD's? Corporations have ignored them so long it's much better to just make sure that your code works with your organizations apps, browsers/whatever, and not care about "Validity". As it is, there's so few sites that even care about Validity, and let me give you a quote to think about that: "Best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer" That roughly means "We didn't have a clue and screwed up our code so bad that it only works on MSIE".
So, Go ahead and make your site/project work on everything, but don't give a care about validity, W3 sucks.
The problem is it costs too much, A wireless connection at 100kb/s isn't worth $100. NO CONNECTION UNDER ISDN IS WORTH $100!
If you have to pay $100 for a connection, it better be a T1.
Yeah, you missed it.. It's only 10x dialup connections, and Dialup connections are only so slow because of STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID.. (you get the picture) FCC regulations. The software updates are for running a different protocol, not neccesarily for a speed increase.
Remember, sometimes regular telephones drop connections too, and generally modems are more reliable. Of course it wouldn't be perfect, but definatly better than dialup. I'd buy it.
Guys, I'd really love to see this implemented. I live just about 1 mile from DSL access, and sattilite isn't available, and of course wireless isn't either. They would see a lot of sales if this was used, and of course it would be very quick to do so using the whole mobile phone system. How fast, or how reliable it is would be a factor though.
I'd like to point out that you're wrong. I go to a church that also has a "Christian School", and they have only 1 machine over 500mhz, the other 6 are low pentiums. The Firewall is a old school IPFW firewall on a 386 running isdn on demand. And this was setup by a Medical Surgeon. Granted, he's a genious, but that's a pretty wierd setup.
I still agree with your point. The problem we are facing is, nobody really wants a 486, and why should they? Right now we have way too many 486's because so many first generation pentiums were kept around when they probably should have (or at least were in the past), dropped.
Wheres the mathmatics? He won by a landslide because he got like 100 more electoral votes. He didn't even need his stronghold states to win. The election was decided before California was done voting, and that was where Clinton spent all his time campaining.
I'm a republican, but I'm not stupid. Sure Bush is doing a lot of stuff wrong, but I wouldn't trust Gore or Nader better than him, and when it came to Technical issues Gore didn't answer anything, like Bush, and Nader didn't stand a chance.
I actually watched presidential debates for 2000... Every time Gore was asked a question, he would either ignore it completely, take it way out of context to throw fud at Bush, or switch issues and misquote some bible verse. "Where your heart is there will your treasure be also" -- Al Gore
In case you're stupid enough to not even know what he was refuring to, it's a quote from Matthew somewhere between 5 and 7. "Where your TREASURE is there will your Heart be also"
You can flame me if you feel like it, but I'll just ignore you unless you have anything good to say.
Yeah, nader's whole approach of Bush==Gore was stupid, and untrue. Nader was Much much closer to Gore than Gore was to Bush, and that's why Bush won.
I'm what you'd probably call a right-wing republican, but I'd say I'm in the middle.
It's very unlikely that anyone will beat Bush in his second term election. When you consider how Clinton won back in '92, he had about 40% of the vote, with perot and bush senior splitting the 60% left. Clinton then won by a land slide in 96. Of course having Bob Dole as a opponent was a major advantage though, Dole just sucked.
I'm not going by what jobs personally says, but last time I looked at apple's site they were still claiming that based on Photoshop benchmarks, G4 was faster than P4, which was true by the benchmarks, but the P4 outdoes it in so many other things it's a very moot point.
He did never promise for OSX x86, but he was definatly going in that direction, and with everything undercover the way he always does everything, he must be Scitsophrenic:-)
Why? why would you vote for nader? he also doesn't have a ghost of a chance, and yet MANY MANY of slashdot users did vote for him (not me). I certainly wouldn't vote for jobs, even though he's cool, hes way to schitzephrenic (spelling?), one minute you think he's going to release OSX for x86, the next he puts out another stupid line of macs and says they're pentium toasters. Ick.
Your dumb conclusion is almost as dumb as your main facts, it
doesn't go anywhere, and it's dead wrong. In fact, Apple could have easily, (and legaly) built OS X on Linux, and simply kept aqua back, closed source, just like they did with BSD. The only thing they wouldn't be able to do was release Darwin under a the APL, which wouldn't really matter, because they're not trying to be proprietary with darwin, or make money on it. And apple isn't the biggest Unix software company in the world, they're merely the largest growing due entirely to dumb looking computers (iMac, etc.) and their (fairly) well done gui: Aqua.
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Cool thought, but your Algothrithm needs a little work. First, most audio cds contain less than 74 minutes of audio. I'll come up with a random number here to take a guess... 50 minutes. Given that 50 is 6756768E-6 of 74, we find that 43918919E-5 is the raw size of these cd images on random average, and the Flac compression rate: 5E-1 of that would be: 21959459E-5 MB. That puts the total size at 71368243E-3 MB or 71368.243E-4 GB
As you can clearly see, it's much simpler to do this whole documentation using scientific notation, and it's gotta be with the capital E.
Thanks for replying and explaining this. I can see how you are correct now. Granted, there isn't much demand for 2d performance, and that's probably why they can get away with this.
Perhaps if your post was more specific I could relate to it better. For example, when using Xfree86, I've noticed a very large difference in speed between the Rage Pro, and Radeon. The Rage Pro was good, as I said, but a radeon system doesn't flood the CPU even when moving huge windows (opaque), and it's very fast. Of course, this is on Linux. Windows doesn't use a lot of 2d accelleration, at least when compared to xfree86. moving windows is all edges only by default, and there's minimal drawing. OS X does a lot of neat blends and this brings in a lot of 2d accelleration, but when you start up windows with a mach64, or a radeon, you wont notice any difference until you try to run UT.
PC-to-Phone calls are still not ready on Linux, and they cost money to do. According to the GnomeMeeting FAQ: Step 3: Register a MicroTelco account on http://www.linuxjack.com.
However, when you go to linuxjack.com, it says that they will be adding accounts for MicroTelco on their site SOON (marketing word for "whenever"), and you can't just use a regular MicroTelco account like you would on Windows.
This is only really good news if you'd use voip-voip, or if all this proprietary technology actually works.
Mostly 2d performance has been "Ok" scince the ATI Rage Pro. Windows doesn't really use 2d accelleration, and that's a big problem for wide acceptance. 2d performance is actually moving more in the 3d direction, at least for Enlightenment, wit h their newest engine that is still unreleased. It does seem like a really cool idea though. Enough ranting.
RBL blocks a lot of stuff that isn't spam. It's probably a better idea to go with bayesian filtering. You can read up on it here: http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html
Of course, that's assuming that you didn't spend the whole night playing wc3 :-)
For those of you who are just dieing to know, this expansion is called "The Frozen Throne". By the way, FP!
granted, that's correct, the way people usually talk about memory "modules", I thought this was the same thing. The same point applies though, and I really don't think that 1gb modules come with 32mb chips, but I'm too unlucky to have ever seen one, so your guess is as good as mine.
32mb dram chips are not produced at all any more. For this research to be of any use at all it needs to be more current. Why? because, it doesn't take 16x as much resources to make a 256mb dram chip as it does to make a 32mb chip.
What to do about it? Dont buy ram in small quantities. Buy the biggest chip on the market (currently 1gb for most modern platforms). This will also help costs for these new chips
That said, I wouldn't think about going that extreme, (you can buy 3-4 512mb chips for the price of 1 1gb chip) but I wouldn't buy 64mb either.
THAT wasn't my point. IF YOU ARE PAYING $100 OR MORE FOR A CONNECTION IT BETTER BE A T1! Not that a T1 is only worth $100, but nothing sub-t1 is worth that.
Who really gives a care about XML Schema, or DTD's? Corporations have ignored them so long it's much better to just make sure that your code works with your organizations apps, browsers/whatever, and not care about "Validity". As it is, there's so few sites that even care about Validity, and let me give you a quote to think about that: "Best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer" That roughly means "We didn't have a clue and screwed up our code so bad that it only works on MSIE".
So, Go ahead and make your site/project work on everything, but don't give a care about validity, W3 sucks.
The problem is it costs too much, A wireless connection at 100kb/s isn't worth $100. NO CONNECTION UNDER ISDN IS WORTH $100! If you have to pay $100 for a connection, it better be a T1.
Yeah, you missed it.. It's only 10x dialup connections, and Dialup connections are only so slow because of STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID.. (you get the picture) FCC regulations. The software updates are for running a different protocol, not neccesarily for a speed increase.
Remember, sometimes regular telephones drop connections too, and generally modems are more reliable. Of course it wouldn't be perfect, but definatly better than dialup. I'd buy it.
Guys, I'd really love to see this implemented. I live just about 1 mile from DSL access, and sattilite isn't available, and of course wireless isn't either. They would see a lot of sales if this was used, and of course it would be very quick to do so using the whole mobile phone system. How fast, or how reliable it is would be a factor though.
I'd like to point out that you're wrong. I go to a church that also has a "Christian School", and they have only 1 machine over 500mhz, the other 6 are low pentiums. The Firewall is a old school IPFW firewall on a 386 running isdn on demand. And this was setup by a Medical Surgeon. Granted, he's a genious, but that's a pretty wierd setup.
I still agree with your point. The problem we are facing is, nobody really wants a 486, and why should they? Right now we have way too many 486's because so many first generation pentiums were kept around when they probably should have (or at least were in the past), dropped.
Wheres the mathmatics? He won by a landslide because he got like 100 more electoral votes. He didn't even need his stronghold states to win. The election was decided before California was done voting, and that was where Clinton spent all his time campaining.
I'm a republican, but I'm not stupid. Sure Bush is doing a lot of stuff wrong, but I wouldn't trust Gore or Nader better than him, and when it came to Technical issues Gore didn't answer anything, like Bush, and Nader didn't stand a chance.
I actually watched presidential debates for 2000... Every time Gore was asked a question, he would either ignore it completely, take it way out of context to throw fud at Bush, or switch issues and misquote some bible verse. "Where your heart is there will your treasure be also" -- Al Gore
In case you're stupid enough to not even know what he was refuring to, it's a quote from Matthew somewhere between 5 and 7. "Where your TREASURE is there will your Heart be also"
You can flame me if you feel like it, but I'll just ignore you unless you have anything good to say.
Yeah, nader's whole approach of Bush==Gore was stupid, and untrue. Nader was Much much closer to Gore than Gore was to Bush, and that's why Bush won. I'm what you'd probably call a right-wing republican, but I'd say I'm in the middle.
It's very unlikely that anyone will beat Bush in his second term election. When you consider how Clinton won back in '92, he had about 40% of the vote, with perot and bush senior splitting the 60% left. Clinton then won by a land slide in 96. Of course having Bob Dole as a opponent was a major advantage though, Dole just sucked.
He did never promise for OSX x86, but he was definatly going in that direction, and with everything undercover the way he always does everything, he must be Scitsophrenic :-)
Don't worry about it, I just dont like jobs.
Hillary Rosen will be missed for all she's done for Slashdot, geeks, and Humanity. As all people who resign are. Btw, who is Hilary Rosen?? ;-)
Why? why would you vote for nader? he also doesn't have a ghost of a chance, and yet MANY MANY of slashdot users did vote for him (not me). I certainly wouldn't vote for jobs, even though he's cool, hes way to schitzephrenic (spelling?), one minute you think he's going to release OSX for x86, the next he puts out another stupid line of macs and says they're pentium toasters. Ick.
Your dumb conclusion is almost as dumb as your main facts, it
doesn't go anywhere, and it's dead wrong.
In fact, Apple could have easily, (and legaly) built OS X on Linux, and simply kept aqua back, closed source, just like they did with BSD. The only thing they wouldn't be able to do was release Darwin under a the APL, which wouldn't really matter, because they're not trying to be proprietary with darwin, or make money on it. And apple isn't the biggest Unix software company in the world, they're merely the largest growing due entirely to dumb looking computers (iMac, etc.) and their (fairly) well done gui: Aqua.
You may want to note that Freebsd beats all the Linux records for stability. I'm not a BSD troll, but lets welcome 5.0 ok?
Just when Freebsd is about to make a big hit, mandrake dies. Serves you GUI freaks right!
Well, they're probably not dead, but it would be funny if they were.