on another subject...the third article (part 3) states that it took FAR longer to replace the bars with Es with a keyboad than a mouse. i beg to differ. they say it took 99 seconds to do it; i believe i beat that record for 27 pages of text; i did all the pages in 10.6 seconds. how do yuo ask: meta-x; repTAB-string; ENTER; |; ENTER; e; ENTER. that took 7.8 seconds. the other 2.8 took for emacs to replace it all. try doing THAT with a mouse!
i dont know about you, but for me it sure is faster to type this message than going to a menu to select each letter. If yuo are saying that it REALLY takes me 2 seconds to type each letter, then this message would be done in QUITE a while, when in fact it took me about 40 seconds to write. (sorry, 42,43)....the point being that in the beginning it is ALWAYS faster to reach for the mouse than press the keycodes, but after a while, when ppl get used to the key codes, they become a lot faster, because yuo dont need ANY hand-eye coordination. all yuo need is the memory of where the keys are. When most ppl begin to learn to type, it takes them a while, but when those same users learn to touch type, typing, say 100 words a minute is much faster than going to a menu to select every letter. same with command sequences. i have gotten REALLY used to emacs command sequences, and switching buffers, for example, as outlined in another comment is pretty DAMNED fast.
although 2.4 is considered the even numbered stable kernel, the potato distro of, say, debian, still comes with the 2.2 kernel, and probably will for some time. The 2.4 kernel is in the woody distro, and still considered testing. so, if yuo buy a set of debian CDs, they will contain 2.2 until testing becomes stable.
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slick looking as IE!!! i dont like to post flaimbait, but as far as looks go, IE is prolly the LEAST attractive application ive seen. I do believe tnat IE is skinnable in winXP, but the default browser look is worse than netscape...
wait, but the cards that DFB DOES support dont exactly have much EXTRA functionality to deal with, hence not much to use. Basically, what it comes down to is that DFB is pretending to be all new and innovative, but in reality their drivers only support the basic features, as do the X drivers. Now, wouldnt it be more productive to work on better x drivers, to add the functionality yuo want, etc, instead of writing a completely new and different graphical system?
aaah, the golden days of technology have come and passed. Before, the technology ppl used, they actually could see and understand / know the functioning of the device. Because of this, repair was almost trivial, and technology was much less of an elite ordeal than it is now.
Over the years, tho, technology has progressed to the point where the ppl DESIGNING the damn stuff, for god sakes, dont even know half of how th product or tech functionsm, besides being able to fix it. If we were to have a technological apocalypse, it would take an enourmous amount of time until we were at the stage that progress could be made again, EVEN if we still had the resources / knowledge of the products we are making.
On another subject, ppl using tech are so blinded by what they call AMAZING speeds, performance, etc, and ask how AMD can possibly surpass what they have currently made....the question is simple: make newer better, and faster stuff!!! we should not be marvelling @ all the NEW things that
ppl come up with, but rather the rate of advancement. back in the day, the 1khz machine was considered a lightning speed, and held in an enourmous warehouse. Ppl should understand that innovation is ALWAYS going to happen, and not wonder at how something could possibly be better / blindedly speculate about the future.
remember, there was a time when ppl didnt believe that widespread electricity was ever going to be a reality, but we ALL know, that the next technology is ALWAYS 5 years down the road...
that the only thing some people look @ is the FPS rate their getting in the corner on some game. If I was benchmarking the 8500, I would look @ the image quality above anything else. I mean cmon: what is better: 100 FPS @ best image quality, vs 115 FPS @ shitty @!#$%^& 640x480? at least certain ppl I know (even tho they are COMPLETE and UTTER ATI freaks and call everyone else NVIDIOTS) look more @ the image quality (namely because they 22" monitors), and not at the shear FPS.
On the other hand, reducing image quality to gain FPS in a game like quake3 is pretty low, especiallu blowing the pride of all those ATI fans (yuo know who yuo are: when yuo cried upon reading this article)....
speaking of "blindingly" fast games, and amazingly optimized hardware accelerated graphics, i stopped over @ the directFB site to check out the modules they have, and what video cards they currently support, even though they are obviously @ a very early stage. either way, kind of odd that they started with supporting the OLD cards, namely those that were HOT a few years ago, but which now are quite out of date... if they speak of blindingly fast game graphics, why dont they start with writing a radeon driver (or 8500, j/k) or the geforce 2 or 3....although it would most definitely be too early to judge the project JUST based on those characteristics, the trend they are setting is similar to that of berlin: we will start with supporting the very basic vid cards such as the ati rage 128, and we will support the REAL stuff later...sounds like a rather doomed plan to me:-\
hmm, interesting scenerio indeed, as yuo mentioned; however yuor division of resources is rather inappropriate. You are saying that good posters (namely people that are involved, and spend time and contribute to the community), should get a reduction in price / number of banners they see; and that people who are legitimate users (not ACs) that post @ -1 and the like...who dont contribute much...should get full price? it seems to me that those users will not CARE about the banners at all, and the subscription will end up being rather pointless anyway. ppl need to come up with something that generates profit NOT by inconvenience (as banner ads are) but BY want / need. If/. used any of the 10^google business tactics to sell ppl stuff or get them to pay $$ because they WANT to, then the community will benefit.
On the other hand, look where communism turned out? *cough* the moto is "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us"... the community thrives on ppl working and contributing to it (essentially the size etc. of/. ), but gets its $$ from....wait a minute: what money!!!! the community's profits recirculate into the PLANNED economy to continue survival of the system. as soon as the communists realized that they needed actaul MONEY instead of just community labor, stable inflation went to hell, and the ruble went to hell too, resulting in the end of communism.
/. is the same...the ppl running the site are realizing that they need actual money to survive, so they start charging people for random ammenities, such as relief of the system's pressure, aka the larger banners. (sounds to me like tax reduction for helping the government). the ppl running the site need to either suck it up and continue with their very useful and so far effective, community practices, or get what they have coming-- think 1991.
the nice thing would be to have a PS/2, so that it can be used both a cheap home computer (even tho w/ not very good specs), and when yuo want to use it for the purpose it was DESIGNED for....use wine! hehe, that would funny if didnt start swapping to hell...nice thought anyway...
*hint* *hint* the problem in your setup is KDE...
KDS can do a lot more than windows, but is also quite a bit heavier, and slower...that is what is using up your memory. And X is not even the problem here! you should switch to twm or if you are NOT entirely into 2 color mode + background, go to mwm or fvwm(2). The implementation of X is what needs to be more hardware accelerated, perhaps, (which would unfortunately make it Linux specific) but X is wonderfully useful and genius beyond what directFB comes up with. If they say that they will support all the features of X currently (which I am sure they will eventually, if the project ever matures), then wait a minute...... X has those features NOW!!!!, and all we need are better device drivers / implementations / updated and accelerated Xfree
well, yuo are actually not quite correct on the consonant thing. ever try doing an FFT on some sound, and keeping only the major frequencies? we humans hear consonants, but for example p and b are essentially the same thing. and in the case of say, an S, its sound like noice to the computer, making it harder to distinguish than when an AAA makes one distinct frequency. So, although yuo are correct in saying that a smaller vocabulary would help, not as much as removing cononants.
bah...most ppl dont realize the 4/20 is just hitler's birthday; i know it seems to carry a rather different conotation, but nevertheless...
it sounds rather dumb when ppl scream it out as done in the parent of this post...;-)
well, a lot of the problem rests in the fact (for viruses), a person has to click a link in their email which starts up a given program that uses the particular file type. In windows, ppl click on links, regardless of the fact that they are files or not, automatically: the rule is: if it is highlighted, CLICK IT! The difference with *nix systems, is that most file types are not necesarily associated with a given program, and links in emails (to files) need to be saved in order to viewed... Also, when a lot of viruses check address books, in winbl0ws it is standard, and in *nix it is not, and therefore harder to access. finally, files on winbl0ws contain the macros for a given progam, and are equivalent to executables. That is not that case for files for *nix: you cant run them from a browser!
Yes:.doc is microsoft's closed format.
No: staroffice can open it
Yes: staroffice is not OSS
No: It should be
With the advent of staroffice, I can now read all docs that come in the mail and such in l00nix, instead of having to reboot to windows or even worse, manually parsing the.doc to get the plaintext out of it. People should start publishing things in.sdw, the official staroffice format, and boycott the.doc; although this may seem hypocritical, because soffice is not OSS, we need to at least try to use formats not associated only with microsoft and their affiliates. Soffice is the first, and so far almost only alternative (then again, emacs is STILL better) to msword. The only downside to it is that they stole the MS interface...(which is also legal, btw);-)
...has at least one bug. Although 100,000 seems like a very large number, and so ~11000, which is the actually open bug count excluding feature requests, duplicates etc, for the size of mozilla, its really not that bad. A lot of these bugs are also linked to each other and therefore are not really separate bugs, but rather a few lines of incorrect code affecting many different modules. In mozilla's many lines of code (can anyone warrant a guess or have an exact number?), 11000 bugs do however amount to a bug per not-very-many lines. for 110,000 lines of code, there would be a bug on average every 10 lines of code.
Hmmm, maybe time to rethink how well ppl write software these days...
yuo are correct in yuor presumption of how GPS works, plus, even if there was communication in the other direction, the non military GPS satellites are only accurate to +/-100 ft, which in the rubble, wouldnt do much good. On the subject of GPS, the government has been wanting to implement monitors in most GPS receivers such as navigation systems tp track yuor speed and other distance / time related information. People have been protesting this, because that would mean that whenever yuo went 80 miles an hour to pass someone, the navigation system would register and notify authorities of a speed violation. People dont want their privacy intruded upon, so GPS systems are (at least in the near future, while our constitution still holds) not going to have transmitters. Although it would seem that they would be useful in these specific cases, there are quite a few MORE people who dont want to get speeding tickets whenever they pass.
"in the city of god (tall buildings, sparkly), two brothers (the towers) will fall in chaos; the third war begins in the burning city"
nostradamus 1654
there is a little more, but i cant exactly remember the rest...
hmmm, cool idea, a midi? for that there are some 1337 sound->midi converters that utilize neural nets to determine (according to FFT decomposition) which notes are which in a song...for example http://home.epix.net/~joelc/midi_git.html. they utilize a hexaphonic pickup and have a pitch to midi converter...hmm, i wonder how it would detect distortion stuff...it would also be neat to have it recognize the effects being used.
star office is good for the same reason trillian is good (www.trillian.cc); it allows for people to access all data from the same genre of products. Just like trillian provides people with the opportunity to access aim, yahoo, msn, icq, and irc, star soffice allows people to access all stuff micro$oft: even the setup menu is EXACTLY like the windows setup menu. People not on windows (and maybe even there) like things that combine formats and have one app for everything (aka emacs);-)
one other thing:
if yuo are running at the same MHz, then what is the point of having the transistors switch faster (except to generate less heat, which would be usefull in things like laptops, where space is critical). They are probably going to run at higher Mhz, and most likely also need more voltage going through the chip: increasing both of yuor (presumably correct) heat factors; hence, more heat.
well, there is also the issue of the ceiling beyond which the cells can reproduce. But mostly, it IS due to the fact that if one line is damaged or destroyed or some other malicious desaster occurs, that is one line less scientists can use for research.
1) first of all, if the speed (transistor activity that is) is actually 40 times faster, then wouldnt that generate quite a bit more heat? hey, i mean we have enough heating problems in terms of chips anyway, we dont need for every chip to need a water cooled peltier system in order for the damn chip not to overheat!
2)200+ patents. wait...can anyone say monopoly?
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on another subject...the third article (part 3) states that it took FAR longer to replace the bars with Es with a keyboad than a mouse. i beg to differ. they say it took 99 seconds to do it; i believe i beat that record for 27 pages of text; i did all the pages in 10.6 seconds. how do yuo ask: meta-x; repTAB-string; ENTER; |; ENTER; e; ENTER. that took 7.8 seconds. the other 2.8 took for emacs to replace it all. try doing THAT with a mouse!
i dont know about you, but for me it sure is faster to type this message than going to a menu to select each letter. If yuo are saying that it REALLY takes me 2 seconds to type each letter, then this message would be done in QUITE a while, when in fact it took me about 40 seconds to write. (sorry, 42,43)....the point being that in the beginning it is ALWAYS faster to reach for the mouse than press the keycodes, but after a while, when ppl get used to the key codes, they become a lot faster, because yuo dont need ANY hand-eye coordination. all yuo need is the memory of where the keys are. When most ppl begin to learn to type, it takes them a while, but when those same users learn to touch type, typing, say 100 words a minute is much faster than going to a menu to select every letter. same with command sequences. i have gotten REALLY used to emacs command sequences, and switching buffers, for example, as outlined in another comment is pretty DAMNED fast.
although 2.4 is considered the even numbered stable kernel, the potato distro of, say, debian, still comes with the 2.2 kernel, and probably will for some time. The 2.4 kernel is in the woody distro, and still considered testing. so, if yuo buy a set of debian CDs, they will contain 2.2 until testing becomes stable.
slick looking as IE!!! i dont like to post flaimbait, but as far as looks go, IE is prolly the LEAST attractive application ive seen. I do believe tnat IE is skinnable in winXP, but the default browser look is worse than netscape...
wait, but the cards that DFB DOES support dont exactly have much EXTRA functionality to deal with, hence not much to use. Basically, what it comes down to is that DFB is pretending to be all new and innovative, but in reality their drivers only support the basic features, as do the X drivers. Now, wouldnt it be more productive to work on better x drivers, to add the functionality yuo want, etc, instead of writing a completely new and different graphical system?
aaah, the golden days of technology have come and passed. Before, the technology ppl used, they actually could see and understand / know the functioning of the device. Because of this, repair was almost trivial, and technology was much less of an elite ordeal than it is now.
Over the years, tho, technology has progressed to the point where the ppl DESIGNING the damn stuff, for god sakes, dont even know half of how th product or tech functionsm, besides being able to fix it. If we were to have a technological apocalypse, it would take an enourmous amount of time until we were at the stage that progress could be made again, EVEN if we still had the resources / knowledge of the products we are making.
On another subject, ppl using tech are so blinded by what they call AMAZING speeds, performance, etc, and ask how AMD can possibly surpass what they have currently made....the question is simple: make newer better, and faster stuff!!! we should not be marvelling @ all the NEW things that
ppl come up with, but rather the rate of advancement. back in the day, the 1khz machine was considered a lightning speed, and held in an enourmous warehouse. Ppl should understand that innovation is ALWAYS going to happen, and not wonder at how something could possibly be better / blindedly speculate about the future.
remember, there was a time when ppl didnt believe that widespread electricity was ever going to be a reality, but we ALL know, that the next technology is ALWAYS 5 years down the road...
that the only thing some people look @ is the FPS rate their getting in the corner on some game. If I was benchmarking the 8500, I would look @ the image quality above anything else. I mean cmon: what is better: 100 FPS @ best image quality, vs 115 FPS @ shitty @!#$%^& 640x480? at least certain ppl I know (even tho they are COMPLETE and UTTER ATI freaks and call everyone else NVIDIOTS) look more @ the image quality (namely because they 22" monitors), and not at the shear FPS.
On the other hand, reducing image quality to gain FPS in a game like quake3 is pretty low, especiallu blowing the pride of all those ATI fans (yuo know who yuo are: when yuo cried upon reading this article)....
speaking of "blindingly" fast games, and amazingly optimized hardware accelerated graphics, i stopped over @ the directFB site to check out the modules they have, and what video cards they currently support, even though they are obviously @ a very early stage. either way, kind of odd that they started with supporting the OLD cards, namely those that were HOT a few years ago, but which now are quite out of date... if they speak of blindingly fast game graphics, why dont they start with writing a radeon driver (or 8500, j/k) or the geforce 2 or 3....although it would most definitely be too early to judge the project JUST based on those characteristics, the trend they are setting is similar to that of berlin: we will start with supporting the very basic vid cards such as the ati rage 128, and we will support the REAL stuff later...sounds like a rather doomed plan to me :-\
hmm, interesting scenerio indeed, as yuo mentioned; however yuor division of resources is rather inappropriate. You are saying that good posters (namely people that are involved, and spend time and contribute to the community), should get a reduction in price / number of banners they see; and that people who are legitimate users (not ACs) that post @ -1 and the like...who dont contribute much...should get full price? it seems to me that those users will not CARE about the banners at all, and the subscription will end up being rather pointless anyway. ppl need to come up with something that generates profit NOT by inconvenience (as banner ads are) but BY want / need. If /. used any of the 10^google business tactics to sell ppl stuff or get them to pay $$ because they WANT to, then the community will benefit.
/. ), but gets its $$ from ....wait a minute: what money!!!! the community's profits recirculate into the PLANNED economy to continue survival of the system. as soon as the communists realized that they needed actaul MONEY instead of just community labor, stable inflation went to hell, and the ruble went to hell too, resulting in the end of communism.
On the other hand, look where communism turned out? *cough* the moto is "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us"... the community thrives on ppl working and contributing to it (essentially the size etc. of
/. is the same...the ppl running the site are realizing that they need actual money to survive, so they start charging people for random ammenities, such as relief of the system's pressure, aka the larger banners. (sounds to me like tax reduction for helping the government). the ppl running the site need to either suck it up and continue with their very useful and so far effective, community practices, or get what they have coming-- think 1991.
the nice thing would be to have a PS/2, so that it can be used both a cheap home computer (even tho w/ not very good specs), and when yuo want to use it for the purpose it was DESIGNED for....use wine! hehe, that would funny if didnt start swapping to hell...nice thought anyway...
*hint* *hint* the problem in your setup is KDE...
KDS can do a lot more than windows, but is also quite a bit heavier, and slower...that is what is using up your memory. And X is not even the problem here! you should switch to twm or if you are NOT entirely into 2 color mode + background, go to mwm or fvwm(2). The implementation of X is what needs to be more hardware accelerated, perhaps, (which would unfortunately make it Linux specific) but X is wonderfully useful and genius beyond what directFB comes up with. If they say that they will support all the features of X currently (which I am sure they will eventually, if the project ever matures), then wait a minute...... X has those features NOW!!!!, and all we need are better device drivers / implementations / updated and accelerated Xfree
well, yuo are actually not quite correct on the consonant thing. ever try doing an FFT on some sound, and keeping only the major frequencies? we humans hear consonants, but for example p and b are essentially the same thing. and in the case of say, an S, its sound like noice to the computer, making it harder to distinguish than when an AAA makes one distinct frequency. So, although yuo are correct in saying that a smaller vocabulary would help, not as much as removing cononants.
bah...most ppl dont realize the 4/20 is just hitler's birthday; i know it seems to carry a rather different conotation, but nevertheless...
it sounds rather dumb when ppl scream it out as done in the parent of this post...;-)
well, a lot of the problem rests in the fact (for viruses), a person has to click a link in their email which starts up a given program that uses the particular file type. In windows, ppl click on links, regardless of the fact that they are files or not, automatically: the rule is: if it is highlighted, CLICK IT! The difference with *nix systems, is that most file types are not necesarily associated with a given program, and links in emails (to files) need to be saved in order to viewed... Also, when a lot of viruses check address books, in winbl0ws it is standard, and in *nix it is not, and therefore harder to access. finally, files on winbl0ws contain the macros for a given progam, and are equivalent to executables. That is not that case for files for *nix: you cant run them from a browser!
well, yes and no.
.doc is microsoft's closed format.
.doc to get the plaintext out of it. People should start publishing things in .sdw, the official staroffice format, and boycott the .doc; although this may seem hypocritical, because soffice is not OSS, we need to at least try to use formats not associated only with microsoft and their affiliates. Soffice is the first, and so far almost only alternative (then again, emacs is STILL better) to msword. The only downside to it is that they stole the MS interface...(which is also legal, btw) ;-)
Yes:
No: staroffice can open it
Yes: staroffice is not OSS
No: It should be
With the advent of staroffice, I can now read all docs that come in the mail and such in l00nix, instead of having to reboot to windows or even worse, manually parsing the
...has at least one bug. Although 100,000 seems like a very large number, and so ~11000, which is the actually open bug count excluding feature requests, duplicates etc, for the size of mozilla, its really not that bad. A lot of these bugs are also linked to each other and therefore are not really separate bugs, but rather a few lines of incorrect code affecting many different modules. In mozilla's many lines of code (can anyone warrant a guess or have an exact number?), 11000 bugs do however amount to a bug per not-very-many lines. for 110,000 lines of code, there would be a bug on average every 10 lines of code.
Hmmm, maybe time to rethink how well ppl write software these days...
:-(
yuo are correct in yuor presumption of how GPS works, plus, even if there was communication in the other direction, the non military GPS satellites are only accurate to +/-100 ft, which in the rubble, wouldnt do much good. On the subject of GPS, the government has been wanting to implement monitors in most GPS receivers such as navigation systems tp track yuor speed and other distance / time related information. People have been protesting this, because that would mean that whenever yuo went 80 miles an hour to pass someone, the navigation system would register and notify authorities of a speed violation. People dont want their privacy intruded upon, so GPS systems are (at least in the near future, while our constitution still holds) not going to have transmitters. Although it would seem that they would be useful in these specific cases, there are quite a few MORE people who dont want to get speeding tickets whenever they pass.
"in the city of god (tall buildings, sparkly), two brothers (the towers) will fall in chaos; the third war begins in the burning city"
nostradamus 1654
there is a little more, but i cant exactly remember the rest...
hmmm, cool idea, a midi? for that there are some 1337 sound->midi converters that utilize neural nets to determine (according to FFT decomposition) which notes are which in a song...for example http://home.epix.net/~joelc/midi_git.html. they utilize a hexaphonic pickup and have a pitch to midi converter...hmm, i wonder how it would detect distortion stuff...it would also be neat to have it recognize the effects being used.
the question is: are images on sites intellectual property
maybe the chandra x-ray observatory will find chandra levy in that black hole too...:-\
star office is good for the same reason trillian is good (www.trillian.cc); it allows for people to access all data from the same genre of products. Just like trillian provides people with the opportunity to access aim, yahoo, msn, icq, and irc, star soffice allows people to access all stuff micro$oft: even the setup menu is EXACTLY like the windows setup menu. People not on windows (and maybe even there) like things that combine formats and have one app for everything (aka emacs) ;-)
one other thing: if yuo are running at the same MHz, then what is the point of having the transistors switch faster (except to generate less heat, which would be usefull in things like laptops, where space is critical). They are probably going to run at higher Mhz, and most likely also need more voltage going through the chip: increasing both of yuor (presumably correct) heat factors; hence, more heat.
well, there is also the issue of the ceiling beyond which the cells can reproduce. But mostly, it IS due to the fact that if one line is damaged or destroyed or some other malicious desaster occurs, that is one line less scientists can use for research.
1) first of all, if the speed (transistor activity that is) is actually 40 times faster, then wouldnt that generate quite a bit more heat? hey, i mean we have enough heating problems in terms of chips anyway, we dont need for every chip to need a water cooled peltier system in order for the damn chip not to overheat! 2)200+ patents. wait...can anyone say monopoly?