The volume of the record is dependent on the movement of the needle which is dependent on the width of the track. Louder tracks are wider which reduces the length of play. Remember those old compilation albums with 10+ tracks per side sounded tinny compared to the original because to fit the tracks were compressed and volume (especially bass) was lost.
We cannot look to history and predict all will be well again. The advent of steam power replaced human muscle but led to many new jobs which required human skill. Automation replaced human skill but led to many jobs which required human intelligence. AI will replace human intelligence but now we have got very little left to offer.
I use the desktop for work, since April 2011 Linux desktops have promoted Eye Candy above Functionality.
I am not just moaning about Fedora here, these are generalized complaints.
Will I be able to switch instantly between windows/desktops ? probably not, there will be some lag due to the necessities of Eye Candy. Will I have a visual indicator of which documents I have open, nope, I will have to rely on subtle clues hidden at the edge of the monitor to hunt for them. Will I be able to quickly and easily navigate/tab down to some little used graphics program, nope I will to use a graphic menu clicking all over the place and making sense of the whole screen or even worse have to google for the name and type it in.
Re:Maybe for the English, but what about the world
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Pi Day Extraordinaire
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Nope, not even for the English, as with the rest of the World they use dd/mm/yy it's only US Americans that use mm/dd/yy
If it's not fusion and it is definitely not fission then how is it nuclear ? Other than spilt up or join together what else can you possibly do to a nucleus ?
I think this story really illustrates the fact the Gates was a very lucky man. He was in the right place at the right time (and with the right mother who was a friend of the Chairman of IBM) to be successful. Under any other circumstance it seems he would be pursuing a career in alchemy.
Not neccessarily always clear, I have used the generic American for inhbitants of the Americas and have had emails from people in the USA thinking it meant just them.
I use Ubuntu for work and Unity is an unmitigated disaster. I receive reports in many different formats, PDF, DOC, JPEG, HTML, PNG etc and need to refer back and forth between them.
Pre-Unity this involved glancing at the bottom tool bar and clicking the report name.
With Unity - I have to stop and think, "where is the switcher" oh yes it's on the left. Move the mouse to the left and then wait for it to appear. Now I don't know what format the report is in so I have to start at the top with Firefox and work my way down the different programs. If I am lucky I only have a few reports in each format and if they are distinct I can spot the one I am looking for with ALT-TAB. However more often than not I have to switch into the report to see if it is the one I need. If I have more than say 15 reports open I can forget where I am and go around in circles looking for reports. This rigmarole takes forever and is mentally draining. I have swapped back to Gnome2 now and it's a great relief.
Mark Shuttleworth - the man who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
The biggest criticism from the rest of the world levelled against the USA forces in Afghanistan is that they are killing far too many civilians. This is also a bad tactic as general Stanley McChrystal admitted last year they were creating more insurgents by their actions not fewer. He called it the hearts and minds offensive and implemented new tactics involving less use of indiscriminate weaponry (bombing) and closer contact combat. This new weapon is non discriminatory, who knows how many women and children might also be taking shelter behind the wall with the gunman. Not good, not good at all.....
Your example is a very small section of society and Is a US biker bar is any more or less violent than a UK biker bar. Now taking a far larger example, do you think US or UK football supporters are the more violent ?
Murder rate per 100,000 of the USA at 5.5 is over three times that of the UK at 1.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
IMO the UK is a much more violent society, street fighting is the weekend pastime in many towns. The only factor reducing the death rate is the absence of guns, so while stabbings are more common in the UK deaths are more common in the USA.
If you are a regular reader maybe you could consider subscribing to their site, that way both parties are happy, you don't see any ads and they get a little revenue.
I had a number crunching PHP batch program that was taking about 45 minutes to run. After a long and tedious rewrite in C++ the best I could get was about 5 minutes faster (~10% improvement). On line the main performance hit with PHP (relative to C++) is the interpretation which can largely be negated using APC for caching and optimizing the intermediate code. Considering the nature of on line programs I would expect even less that the 10% gain I squeezed from the batch program. Of course it's horses for courses but from my experience I find the 10:1 ratio unrealistic for real world applications..
Re:Will it fix the most notorious Linux bug??
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Fedora 10 Released
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Your confused, there is no such bug in Linux and hasn't ever been (or at least since 1997 when I first used it). There is/was a Windows bug/feature in which uptime is stored as a DWORD so the maximum value can only be 4294967295 or 47.9 days. Maybe this causes some Windows applications to bring down the whole system ?
I don't pay the carpenter every time I sit on a chair no matter how well crafted it is. The people who take the risk should get the reward. The artist can always say waive the up front fee and give me a point on net profits, but they never seem keen on that idea, I wonder why ! Talk about eating your cake and having it.
The man is possibly one of the greatest heroes of all time, he equalised the power balance and prevented the Americans from bombing whoever they wished.
Slashdot Mirror
huh, they aren't introducing new speed limits, you will still be able to drive as fast as you want on the autobahns.
The volume of the record is dependent on the movement of the needle which is dependent on the width of the track. Louder tracks are wider which reduces the length of play. Remember those old compilation albums with 10+ tracks per side sounded tinny compared to the original because to fit the tracks were compressed and volume (especially bass) was lost.
We cannot look to history and predict all will be well again. The advent of steam power replaced human muscle but led to many new jobs which required human skill. Automation replaced human skill but led to many jobs which required human intelligence. AI will replace human intelligence but now we have got very little left to offer.
Yup, if you don't like genuine taste of coffee why roast the bean and then boil it in water.
Surely there should be some disclaimer explaining this is a paid for publicity and not a genuine article of interest.
XFCE installed, so far so good :-)
I use the desktop for work, since April 2011 Linux desktops have promoted Eye Candy above Functionality. I am not just moaning about Fedora here, these are generalized complaints. Will I be able to switch instantly between windows/desktops ? probably not, there will be some lag due to the necessities of Eye Candy. Will I have a visual indicator of which documents I have open, nope, I will have to rely on subtle clues hidden at the edge of the monitor to hunt for them. Will I be able to quickly and easily navigate/tab down to some little used graphics program, nope I will to use a graphic menu clicking all over the place and making sense of the whole screen or even worse have to google for the name and type it in.
Nope, not even for the English, as with the rest of the World they use dd/mm/yy it's only US Americans that use mm/dd/yy
If it's not fusion and it is definitely not fission then how is it nuclear ? Other than spilt up or join together what else can you possibly do to a nucleus ?
I think this story really illustrates the fact the Gates was a very lucky man. He was in the right place at the right time (and with the right mother who was a friend of the Chairman of IBM) to be successful. Under any other circumstance it seems he would be pursuing a career in alchemy.
Not neccessarily always clear, I have used the generic American for inhbitants of the Americas and have had emails from people in the USA thinking it meant just them.
Of course it is all in the eye of the beholder, but this beholder thinks it's another Austin Allegro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Austin_Allegro_Brown_7.JPG
Putting gullwings on such an ugly vehicle is as the Amerians say "polishing a turd".
I use Ubuntu for work and Unity is an unmitigated disaster. I receive reports in many different formats, PDF, DOC, JPEG, HTML, PNG etc and need to refer back and forth between them. Pre-Unity this involved glancing at the bottom tool bar and clicking the report name. With Unity - I have to stop and think, "where is the switcher" oh yes it's on the left. Move the mouse to the left and then wait for it to appear. Now I don't know what format the report is in so I have to start at the top with Firefox and work my way down the different programs. If I am lucky I only have a few reports in each format and if they are distinct I can spot the one I am looking for with ALT-TAB. However more often than not I have to switch into the report to see if it is the one I need. If I have more than say 15 reports open I can forget where I am and go around in circles looking for reports. This rigmarole takes forever and is mentally draining. I have swapped back to Gnome2 now and it's a great relief. Mark Shuttleworth - the man who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
he died, and I think the logical and precise man he was he would be annoyed at the use of such a weedy euphemism
The biggest criticism from the rest of the world levelled against the USA forces in Afghanistan is that they are killing far too many civilians. This is also a bad tactic as general Stanley McChrystal admitted last year they were creating more insurgents by their actions not fewer. He called it the hearts and minds offensive and implemented new tactics involving less use of indiscriminate weaponry (bombing) and closer contact combat. This new weapon is non discriminatory, who knows how many women and children might also be taking shelter behind the wall with the gunman. Not good, not good at all .....
Your example is a very small section of society and Is a US biker bar is any more or less violent than a UK biker bar. Now taking a far larger example, do you think US or UK football supporters are the more violent ?
Murder rate per 100,000 of the USA at 5.5 is over three times that of the UK at 1.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate IMO the UK is a much more violent society, street fighting is the weekend pastime in many towns. The only factor reducing the death rate is the absence of guns, so while stabbings are more common in the UK deaths are more common in the USA.
If you are a regular reader maybe you could consider subscribing to their site, that way both parties are happy, you don't see any ads and they get a little revenue.
I had a number crunching PHP batch program that was taking about 45 minutes to run. After a long and tedious rewrite in C++ the best I could get was about 5 minutes faster (~10% improvement). On line the main performance hit with PHP (relative to C++) is the interpretation which can largely be negated using APC for caching and optimizing the intermediate code. Considering the nature of on line programs I would expect even less that the 10% gain I squeezed from the batch program. Of course it's horses for courses but from my experience I find the 10:1 ratio unrealistic for real world applications..
I like it and I'm going to use it, thanks :-)
Your confused, there is no such bug in Linux and hasn't ever been (or at least since 1997 when I first used it). There is/was a Windows bug/feature in which uptime is stored as a DWORD so the maximum value can only be 4294967295 or 47.9 days. Maybe this causes some Windows applications to bring down the whole system ?
I don't pay the carpenter every time I sit on a chair no matter how well crafted it is. The people who take the risk should get the reward. The artist can always say waive the up front fee and give me a point on net profits, but they never seem keen on that idea, I wonder why ! Talk about eating your cake and having it.
The man is possibly one of the greatest heroes of all time, he equalised the power balance and prevented the Americans from bombing whoever they wished.
There is yet hope, a combined European / Asian military force could liberate the US from it's fanatical leader and restore democracy.