I like the idea of allowing people to use linux. After all, the hardware is already a proprietary blob with bugs of it's own. Nobody complains about that.
Personally, I'd prefer a framework for userspace device drivers, so a company can release a linux executable along with their hardware so users can install/use it quickly. I don't see why this would be so bad for linux. People who write device drivers do it because they enjoy it. It's hardly going to stop them.
Anyway, that way the open source drivers in the kernel will always have the performance edge.
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Apple brought us the popular microcomputer (Apple 2).
Apple brought us the modern desktop. (Apple mac)
Bill gates founded a law firm, not a computer company.
If I tried to make a 20khz sound with 40khz sampling, I wouldn't hear a thing. Take two samples of one wave equidistant, and you get the middle and the beginning of the wave, which are always the same value. At 4X the sampling, you get a saw wave (or worse, a muffled trapazoid if you phase shift 45 deg). So, if you do 20Khz at 80Khz, you're still screwed. How many points do you need on a wave to make it smooth? I would say at least 8 at high frequencies (and that has a chance of only getting you about 66% of the power). That's about 160Khz for 20Khz sound.
I hate that someone actually thought the whole 2X the audible range was good enough to begin with. You may not hear a difference, but I can. If you don't, check the frequency response of your speakers.
No you can not hear a difference. Maybe you should read up on sampling theory sometime. A 44.1khz sampling rate preserves all phases and frequencies up to the limit of 22050hz without loss.
Yes, you need to reconstruct the signal mathematically, using oversampling (almost all soundcards will do at least 8x oversampling), but a higher source sample rate that 44100hz is pointless. The engineers who devised CDs were not stupid.
There was a story last year that mentioned Microsoft was working on Win-WiFi
Cheaper to produce my arse. They're just trying
to lock out Linux users again.
This is to be expected. Hardware support is a
weakness of Linux, so MS are moving into the hardware
maket in an attempt to make cards that not only
have no official Linux support, they will be so
locked up with patents that it'll be impossible to
provide a Linux driver.
Star Wars (the first one) was shown on ITV last
week (UK version of PBS I suppose). I had never
seen it all the way through, so I watched it
to see what all the fuss was about.
To be honest I was appalled. How can *anyone* truly
believe this film is worthy of discussion today?
The plot is as barren as an episode of Columbo, and
the Battlestar Galactica audio-visuals just cap it
off.
I reckon that this won't affect many current Windows users, they'll just carry on being exploited like the fools they are, but I can see a large number of reasonably savvy windows users and win/lin fence sitters to switch to linux, maybe even to alternative platforms such as Sun/Apple. After all Sun now have some low cost kit.
Certainly there will be millions of "criminals", sorry "terrorists" created overnight.
I think the bit about the 2D scrolling "innovation" is pretty inaccurate
Back in the 80s *no* computer or console had the bandwidth to scoll by copying pixels - it was always done by changing the bitmap vectors in the gfx hardware.
All ID did was use the same technique as nintendo (and I'll bet it was patented by someone, atari?) thanks to IBM, who quite obviously had designed EGA with games and scrolling in mind.
Sony had a patent on a thing called a "Trinitron", which gave their TVs the best picture quality.
Now Sony televisions are outclassed by practically every mainstream manufacturer imho.
Sony used to make the best sounding cassette walkmans. Not any more. Now their minidisc players suck for sound quality compared to Panasonic, Sharp etc. Just read the reviews.
Sony music, and indeed "Sony's music" suck. Full stop.
I will quite happily steal certain software packages given the opportunity (eg Windows, If I ever needed to run a Windows app), since I don't believe it's stealing.
Now if somebody offered me a free bit of Sony hardware, stolen straight from the factory, I wouldn't regard that as stealing either. I can see Sony throwing unsold minidisc-walkmans into the landfill in an attempt to purposefully inlate the street price.
Would you put it past them? Don't forget that even Apple is guilty of that crime.
The fact that both client and server are user processes and are separate means that X11-based systems are very robust.
Most XFree servers bangs on the hardware, and
I simply can't accept this as a good thing for
a user process.
I think Linus' conflicting opinion on X is rather
interesting. On the one hand, he has said that
in kernel framebuffers are bad, advocating
mapping the fb into a user process. This means he
likes a microkernel-daemon type system for graphics, yet we all know how lame he thinks
Mach is...
6. Die stray processes, die!
Ever tried ctrl-alt-escape in KDE?
Obvious and transparent, no?
Ever thought of ctrl-alt-delete on a PC ?
What really *is* easy is this:
Right click on desktop -> properties -> settings
[or Start -> Control Panel -> Display settings]
Do you truly believe either of those options
are easy to a beginner?
You sir are truly a Windows bigot. Face it,
computers are, and always will be complicated
machines, and most people will find them
difficult to use.
Linux is not aiming to emulate the dated windows
way of doing things. Linux is designed for
bespoke solutions and hardware standards that
don't change.
Truetype fonts look terrible.
I know you have to set up freetype to
enable high quality rendering, but if
the results are only as good as the
fonts in windows I'm not interested.
The most beautiful on screen fonts imho
are the fixed point size Adobe ones that
come with every linux distribution.
Do yourself a favour and uninstall all
those shonky horrible pixelated scalable
X fonts.
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Personally, I'd prefer a framework for userspace device drivers, so a company can release a linux executable along with their hardware so users can install/use it quickly. I don't see why this would be so bad for linux. People who write device drivers do it because they enjoy it. It's hardly going to stop them.
Anyway, that way the open source drivers in the kernel will always have the performance edge.
Apple brought us the modern desktop. (Apple mac)
Bill gates founded a law firm, not a computer company.
No you can not hear a difference. Maybe you should read up on sampling theory sometime. A 44.1khz sampling rate preserves all phases and frequencies up to the limit of 22050hz without loss.
Yes, you need to reconstruct the signal mathematically, using oversampling (almost all soundcards will do at least 8x oversampling), but a higher source sample rate that 44100hz is pointless. The engineers who devised CDs were not stupid.
It went something like "The boy's learning. What's his name?"
"Li ... (blank, next ad)
Anybody in the UK notice this? Seems fishy to me. Looks like MS (or MS fanboys) are playing dirty...
"Disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976. If this trend continues - ey!"
This is to be expected. Hardware support is a weakness of Linux, so MS are moving into the hardware maket in an attempt to make cards that not only have no official Linux support, they will be so locked up with patents that it'll be impossible to provide a Linux driver.
Yeah, and I thought the Microdrive was an ill concieved miniaturised 8-track cartridge :)
Bleurgh!
To be honest I was appalled. How can *anyone* truly believe this film is worthy of discussion today? The plot is as barren as an episode of Columbo, and the Battlestar Galactica audio-visuals just cap it off.
Grow up guys, it's a truly awful film...
Just one question ...
What's a loger for?
Certainly there will be millions of "criminals", sorry "terrorists" created overnight.
Back in the 80s *no* computer or console had the bandwidth to scoll by copying pixels - it was always done by changing the bitmap vectors in the gfx hardware.
All ID did was use the same technique as nintendo (and I'll bet it was patented by someone, atari?) thanks to IBM, who quite obviously had designed EGA with games and scrolling in mind.
Yeah! You could call it the Cachedot ;)
Now Sony televisions are outclassed by practically every mainstream manufacturer imho.
Sony used to make the best sounding cassette walkmans. Not any more. Now their minidisc players suck for sound quality compared to Panasonic, Sharp etc. Just read the reviews.
Sony music, and indeed "Sony's music" suck. Full stop.
I will quite happily steal certain software packages given the opportunity (eg Windows, If I ever needed to run a Windows app), since I don't believe it's stealing.
Now if somebody offered me a free bit of Sony hardware, stolen straight from the factory, I wouldn't regard that as stealing either. I can see Sony throwing unsold minidisc-walkmans into the landfill in an attempt to purposefully inlate the street price.
Would you put it past them? Don't forget that even Apple is guilty of that crime.
We need something basicly Win32 compatible, with NT driver support and alternative standard apis/apps such as mozilla, quicktime, opengl etc
I also think it should be commercial, and heavily funded. This is the only way of turning the windows monopoly into the windows STANDARD.
IBM?
Personally I don't mind false positives from spam/virus filters, as long as the sender knows the message didn't get through.
I think Linus' conflicting opinion on X is rather interesting. On the one hand, he has said that in kernel framebuffers are bad, advocating mapping the fb into a user process. This means he likes a microkernel-daemon type system for graphics, yet we all know how lame he thinks Mach is ...
Now where can I find a program to Escherize(tm) any Droste-effect type picture :)
Seeing as we're out on the left field a bit here, how about this:
Don't listen to commercial music, get music free from the various mod sites etc. It helps if you are into electronic music, of course ...
Ever thought of ctrl-alt-delete on a PC ?
Do you truly believe either of those options are easy to a beginner?
You sir are truly a Windows bigot. Face it, computers are, and always will be complicated machines, and most people will find them difficult to use.
Linux is not aiming to emulate the dated windows way of doing things. Linux is designed for bespoke solutions and hardware standards that don't change.
Truetype fonts look terrible. I know you have to set up freetype to enable high quality rendering, but if the results are only as good as the fonts in windows I'm not interested.
The most beautiful on screen fonts imho are the fixed point size Adobe ones that come with every linux distribution.
Do yourself a favour and uninstall all those shonky horrible pixelated scalable X fonts.
I think it's just what you're looking for :)
It's a spoof btw. Damn creepy if you ask me.