Why would that happen? Current CD burning software can tell the speed of CDR media, and a DVD-ROM drive (or the OS) knows if you've inserted a DVD or a CD. My guess is the burning software's manuals would say "you can burn any of the following: CDR, CDRW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, etc." but as for having to "choose" it, I dont think Joe Consumer would have to. Just slap it in, and the burning software says "You have 650 megs availabe, or, You have 4.3 gigs available".
Benchmarks show how fast a given CPU can run that benchmark, which may, but probably will not reflect the kind of computing you're doing.
If you have a computing need that places such a critical importance on speed of CPU that even a few % difference matters, the only real benchmark you should be running is YOUR application under both CPUs.
If you do not have a need like this, and you are just doing general computing, and you can't tell the difference between an Athlon 1600+ and an Intel Pentium 4 1.6, just by using it, then who really cares?
I dont understand why crap like what Steven Hawking uses still sounds like the 1980's standup arcade game G.O.R.F. - surely we can do better in 2002?
There seems to be 2 elements of making speech, the single smooth sound coming from your throat, and the shape of your mouth to form that relatively flat sound into pockets and ripples and bubbles and curves. Words are formed by the mouth, inflection is done by constricting or relaxing the bagpipe like monotone coming from the throat. Has any algorithm ever tried to model it like that? It seems, or sounds like, the crap like the Handicap thing that comes with XP, the National Weather Service, and Stephen Hawking all try to just use a simple tone to model the word alone.
What about taking a normal human and having them read each of the most common used words in as monotone as possible, then just use the computer to change inflection?
I dont know, you just think we could do the whole computer speech thing better since 20 years ago.
I have an idea. How about we let people keep the copyrights and source and guts of the stuff they make if they want. AND we also let people who want to give away the sourcecode and blueprints and even the product itself, give it away free of charge.
Oh wait. We can do that now? You mean no one's forcing anyone to keep the source code private? Interesting. So what was the problem again?
Uh, arrogance on the side of Microsoft for not setting up dual boot for Linux? What?
Microsoft shouldnt have to give a shit about dual booting linux, theyre not the ones trying to play catchup. If they did do that, then they'd have to support it. Why would Microsoft want to support users calling in with questions about their screwed up dual boot Linux process? Thats like saying "It's arrogant on the side of Sony that Toshiba remotes don't work with their TVs".
I'd guess most people running Kazaa aren't running it on a server. (In fact I run it in a virtual machine in VMware so I can isolate it and shut it down when not in use.) So I say put it all on 80, that'll fuck with the cable companies. >:)
How about the cable companies offering speeds they can support users taking advantage of? The cable companies keep offering faster connections, then denying users the ability to use the speed. Just give everyone a solid 60 kps or whatever their pipe can stand and forget about it. That's what DSL providers do more or less.
"Can anyone recommend an alternative fuel source car that won't taco like a bicycle wheel in even a minor collision?"
I mean seriously, is your life worth a few mpg of gas? The hybrid and electric cars Ive seen would crumple at the hands of a shopping cart, let alone a head on collision with an Escalade. 80 mpg is great, but I wouldnt feel safe in one of those things on the highway.
I'm not trying to sound like a troll, because I have no favorites, but why is it I see "Too many connections.." slammed websites that run on PHP/MySQL all the damn time, yet I don't remember ever seeing that on an ASP/SQL Server site?:\
Okay, I am seriously not trying to troll here, but - while I agree we do need to protect our right to keep information private, I can't help but play devil's advocate.
I want to be able to withhold information to myself, that much is sure. Maybe Ive scribbled an equation to some new form of energy on a piece of paper. No one or government has a right to that except me. But the rest of it, like the GPS enabled phones... Okay, so 20 years from now the "government" can take over some cell phone company and tell where everyone on a cell phone is standing. Then the "government" can build a massive database of EVERYONE's web traffic, and see that 2/3 the country visits porno sites, then the "government" builds a database and see's that you've flown from Floria to New Hampshire 5 times this year! For all 300 million citizens of America. NOW what? So how does that bring about the destruction of our world? Does the "government" (the same one you see made of honest NYC Firemen, and young Marines that were the friends and family you grew up with, the same American's that will remove Bill Maher from TV just because he thought for himself and said "running airplanes into buildings isn't cowardly" (ie, we are overly-politically correct), these same people are going to up and one day decide "okay, everyone who's looked at a porno website and eaten vanilla ice cream in the last 30 days, you're all getting baked in an oven." When does this happen? And what purpose does it serve? I think everyone looks at Nazi Germany and thinks that if we get GPS cellphones that's the next logical step. The world is a different place now. The bright light of the media is "EVERYWHERE" and loves stories and exploitations. If the "government" wants to single out a group of people based on information, say, religious preference, they can just go to all the churches of one kind with a pickup truck and take them away. It isn't going to start or stop with GPS cellphones. Again, I want privacy, I expect privacy "for those things I have made or do on my own in my own private home". Why do we expect privacy when dealing with the outside world? You're on tape going in to K-Mart, every CC purchase you make is logged. If you call customer service at your electric company the call is taped. You have decided you want to deal with the public. You will realize there will be records of it. How much privacy do you think there is in a 25 person african village? How about a small midwestern town? Stop expecting privacy when using services provided by someone other than yourself.
I can't speak for him, but I agree with him, and I think it means a little something like, "No, I can't do taxes in my head as fast as Turbo Tax, nor can my brain sniff out a bomb, but it can grasp the concept of both, among a zillion other things, and see corrolations between them, and build new ideas based upon both. Turbo Tax, left to it's own devices, will never be any more than Turbo Tax.
I realize the light saber of Star Wars is impossible for what we know now, but does anyone have anything to say or any URL's about possible light saber like weapons that actually work? What would it take? Come on geeks, if you can mod a case enough to make a dual athlon not overheat in 3 seconds, surely you can figure out a way to make a big thick laser beam capable of cutting through a car.
Just to let YOU know, it's "Star Wars" not "starwars" in your post here., it's " transference" not "transferance", you used both in this post, etc. Oh, and by the way this isn't english class, and I hate people who post "Holier Than Thou" grammatical critiques on Slashdot.
Assuming no revolutionary holographic projection technology, about the only practical consumer use for removable media >100GB is gonna be editing video or archiving uncompressed WAV files.
Or editing home movies, or buying the latest game at Best Buy that is 50 gigs of cinematics, or backing up these 100gig drives that are standard in PCs now, or $99 PC based PVRs, or a billion other things. Don't underestimate consumer needs. There's a reason there's 50 different kinds of 100 spindle CDRs at every Wal-Mart. Consumers have big storage needs, and its not just mp3's.
Tape fails sooo often.:( Ive used everything from DAT to Onstream and Ive seen way too many failures to ever rely on it. Maybe if you backup twice a day with a library of 100 tapes back, but if youre like most people and just dump your drive to tape once in awhile, I give you a 50/50 chance that when you go to restore after a massive failure, your most recent tape doesnt read correctly, and you have to go back more like 3 months ago when you made the one before it. Tape is icky.
If youre bitching about a "ads flying around my window, blocking my view of the content on screen, trying to sell me shit", why dont you protest the SITE you're looking at, not Flash. Maybe the website you're on is run by ad revenue hungry jerkoffs. Flash is sort of the wrong target for your anger.
Long before there were any recording mediums like records and tapes, music performances were paid for (or not) "one off". You bought the experience of the performance. Then along came technology and gave the musicians the loophole of their wildest wet dream, to be able to make basically infinite perfect copies of their music for nothing, and SELL every copy to everyone. This is a little loophole that no car maker, livestock breeder, surgeon or construction worker will EVER get to enjoy (barring massive advancements in quantum physics). For a few decades this loophole netted the music industry BIG bucks and transformed music from something we all made a personal part of our lives with our families and friends into a commercial commodity worth billions of dollars. Then, technology advanced again, and the loophole closed. Now, we too have the same ability the recording industry has had for decades, now WE can make copies of the artists work. Technology giveth, and technology taketh away. Seems fair from that perspective if you ask me. I agree with a previous poster, music should return to the verb it once was, not the noun the recording industry pimped it into.
I think the theory behind a 150 frame per second Quake score is, "If it can get 150 normally it should be able to get the acceptable 30-50 that seems smooth to us all in the "harder" parts." Remember some of these games vary wildly in complexity depending on the level, area, number of characters on screen, so getting 150 kps assures you that it won't start to suck as the battle gets complex.
Afraid that the government might be able to steal my encrypted s3cr3ts, I re-encrypted all of my data with 4096 bit keys, then re-encrypted that data with another algorithm, 5 more times in a row. I ended up with a garbled mess that NO ONE could ever decipher.
Then I looked at it with Wordpad, and realized I generated the source code to Microsoft Windows!
If Im reading this article correctly, youre not even close. It says:
According to a Gartner report, transoceanic fiber capacity ballooned from 432.7 gigabits per second (Gbps) in the fourth quarter of 1999 to nearly 3,500 Gbps at the end of the fourth quarter of 2000. Gartner analyst Bill Hahn predicts that capacity will mushroom to about 13,400 Gbps by the end of this year.
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Why would that happen? Current CD burning software can tell the speed of CDR media, and a DVD-ROM drive (or the OS) knows if you've inserted a DVD or a CD. My guess is the burning software's manuals would say "you can burn any of the following: CDR, CDRW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, etc." but as for having to "choose" it, I dont think Joe Consumer would have to. Just slap it in, and the burning software says "You have 650 megs availabe, or, You have 4.3 gigs available".
If you have a computing need that places such a critical importance on speed of CPU that even a few % difference matters, the only real benchmark you should be running is YOUR application under both CPUs.
If you do not have a need like this, and you are just doing general computing, and you can't tell the difference between an Athlon 1600+ and an Intel Pentium 4 1.6, just by using it, then who really cares?
There seems to be 2 elements of making speech, the single smooth sound coming from your throat, and the shape of your mouth to form that relatively flat sound into pockets and ripples and bubbles and curves. Words are formed by the mouth, inflection is done by constricting or relaxing the bagpipe like monotone coming from the throat. Has any algorithm ever tried to model it like that? It seems, or sounds like, the crap like the Handicap thing that comes with XP, the National Weather Service, and Stephen Hawking all try to just use a simple tone to model the word alone.
What about taking a normal human and having them read each of the most common used words in as monotone as possible, then just use the computer to change inflection?
I dont know, you just think we could do the whole computer speech thing better since 20 years ago.
Oh wait. We can do that now? You mean no one's forcing anyone to keep the source code private? Interesting. So what was the problem again?
YEA! All you need is $50,000! Hmm... how can we get that... I know! We'll sell something! Oh wait, I forgot, we're giving everything away. :/
Uh, arrogance on the side of Microsoft for not setting up dual boot for Linux? What? Microsoft shouldnt have to give a shit about dual booting linux, theyre not the ones trying to play catchup. If they did do that, then they'd have to support it. Why would Microsoft want to support users calling in with questions about their screwed up dual boot Linux process? Thats like saying "It's arrogant on the side of Sony that Toshiba remotes don't work with their TVs".
If so, then "DOS 0wnZ y0u"
This,coming from a guy who's webpage only looks right on a 21" monitor or larger.
Wait until they make a version that's been tested and optimized for Mira. This is the ideal form factor for pen computing, etc.
I'd guess most people running Kazaa aren't running it on a server. (In fact I run it in a virtual machine in VMware so I can isolate it and shut it down when not in use.) So I say put it all on 80, that'll fuck with the cable companies. >:)
How about the cable companies offering speeds they can support users taking advantage of? The cable companies keep offering faster connections, then denying users the ability to use the speed. Just give everyone a solid 60 kps or whatever their pipe can stand and forget about it. That's what DSL providers do more or less.
I mean seriously, is your life worth a few mpg of gas? The hybrid and electric cars Ive seen would crumple at the hands of a shopping cart, let alone a head on collision with an Escalade. 80 mpg is great, but I wouldnt feel safe in one of those things on the highway.
I'm not trying to sound like a troll, because I have no favorites, but why is it I see "Too many connections.." slammed websites that run on PHP/MySQL all the damn time, yet I don't remember ever seeing that on an ASP/SQL Server site? :\
I want to be able to withhold information to myself, that much is sure. Maybe Ive scribbled an equation to some new form of energy on a piece of paper. No one or government has a right to that except me. But the rest of it, like the GPS enabled phones... Okay, so 20 years from now the "government" can take over some cell phone company and tell where everyone on a cell phone is standing. Then the "government" can build a massive database of EVERYONE's web traffic, and see that 2/3 the country visits porno sites, then the "government" builds a database and see's that you've flown from Floria to New Hampshire 5 times this year! For all 300 million citizens of America. NOW what? So how does that bring about the destruction of our world? Does the "government" (the same one you see made of honest NYC Firemen, and young Marines that were the friends and family you grew up with, the same American's that will remove Bill Maher from TV just because he thought for himself and said "running airplanes into buildings isn't cowardly" (ie, we are overly-politically correct), these same people are going to up and one day decide "okay, everyone who's looked at a porno website and eaten vanilla ice cream in the last 30 days, you're all getting baked in an oven." When does this happen? And what purpose does it serve? I think everyone looks at Nazi Germany and thinks that if we get GPS cellphones that's the next logical step. The world is a different place now. The bright light of the media is "EVERYWHERE" and loves stories and exploitations. If the "government" wants to single out a group of people based on information, say, religious preference, they can just go to all the churches of one kind with a pickup truck and take them away. It isn't going to start or stop with GPS cellphones. Again, I want privacy, I expect privacy "for those things I have made or do on my own in my own private home". Why do we expect privacy when dealing with the outside world? You're on tape going in to K-Mart, every CC purchase you make is logged. If you call customer service at your electric company the call is taped. You have decided you want to deal with the public. You will realize there will be records of it. How much privacy do you think there is in a 25 person african village? How about a small midwestern town? Stop expecting privacy when using services provided by someone other than yourself.
I can't speak for him, but I agree with him, and I think it means a little something like, "No, I can't do taxes in my head as fast as Turbo Tax, nor can my brain sniff out a bomb, but it can grasp the concept of both, among a zillion other things, and see corrolations between them, and build new ideas based upon both. Turbo Tax, left to it's own devices, will never be any more than Turbo Tax.
I realize the light saber of Star Wars is impossible for what we know now, but does anyone have anything to say or any URL's about possible light saber like weapons that actually work? What would it take? Come on geeks, if you can mod a case enough to make a dual athlon not overheat in 3 seconds, surely you can figure out a way to make a big thick laser beam capable of cutting through a car.
Just to let YOU know, it's "Star Wars" not "starwars" in your post here., it's " transference" not "transferance", you used both in this post, etc. Oh, and by the way this isn't english class, and I hate people who post "Holier Than Thou" grammatical critiques on Slashdot.
Or editing home movies, or buying the latest game at Best Buy that is 50 gigs of cinematics, or backing up these 100gig drives that are standard in PCs now, or $99 PC based PVRs, or a billion other things. Don't underestimate consumer needs. There's a reason there's 50 different kinds of 100 spindle CDRs at every Wal-Mart. Consumers have big storage needs, and its not just mp3's.
Tape fails sooo often. :( Ive used everything from DAT to Onstream and Ive seen way too many failures to ever rely on it. Maybe if you backup twice a day with a library of 100 tapes back, but if youre like most people and just dump your drive to tape once in awhile, I give you a 50/50 chance that when you go to restore after a massive failure, your most recent tape doesnt read correctly, and you have to go back more like 3 months ago when you made the one before it. Tape is icky.
If youre bitching about a "ads flying around my window, blocking my view of the content on screen, trying to sell me shit", why dont you protest the SITE you're looking at, not Flash. Maybe the website you're on is run by ad revenue hungry jerkoffs. Flash is sort of the wrong target for your anger.
Long before there were any recording mediums like records and tapes, music performances were paid for (or not) "one off". You bought the experience of the performance. Then along came technology and gave the musicians the loophole of their wildest wet dream, to be able to make basically infinite perfect copies of their music for nothing, and SELL every copy to everyone. This is a little loophole that no car maker, livestock breeder, surgeon or construction worker will EVER get to enjoy (barring massive advancements in quantum physics). For a few decades this loophole netted the music industry BIG bucks and transformed music from something we all made a personal part of our lives with our families and friends into a commercial commodity worth billions of dollars. Then, technology advanced again, and the loophole closed. Now, we too have the same ability the recording industry has had for decades, now WE can make copies of the artists work. Technology giveth, and technology taketh away. Seems fair from that perspective if you ask me. I agree with a previous poster, music should return to the verb it once was, not the noun the recording industry pimped it into.
I think the theory behind a 150 frame per second Quake score is, "If it can get 150 normally it should be able to get the acceptable 30-50 that seems smooth to us all in the "harder" parts." Remember some of these games vary wildly in complexity depending on the level, area, number of characters on screen, so getting 150 kps assures you that it won't start to suck as the battle gets complex.
Then I looked at it with Wordpad, and realized I generated the source code to Microsoft Windows!
According to a Gartner report, transoceanic fiber capacity ballooned from 432.7 gigabits per second (Gbps) in the fourth quarter of 1999 to nearly 3,500 Gbps at the end of the fourth quarter of 2000. Gartner analyst Bill Hahn predicts that capacity will mushroom to about 13,400 Gbps by the end of this year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-254520.html?legacy=c net
agnostic
One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
atheist
One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
So yea, there is a difference.