I'm not so sure about the choice thing. I think they're building a lot of new functionality into using WinFS and you'd lose all that if you didn't use it. Sorta like running XP in 2K mode.
Not true. You can use the back channel on most PS printers to output the data in text form. (typically with a serial port, AppleTalk, or Port 9100) You can also create a file if the printer has a HDD and upload it later. If that prof had saved incremental data on the printers HDD (assuming it had one) he could have recovered from the power-cycle and picked up where he left off:)
PS Can be made very device independant, but in practice people (and driver) tend to put in all sorts of device dependent things. PDF has the commands that let you do this removed (e.g. setpagedevice). I always thought it was more important that PDF was Page Independent - you can extract a page from any point in the PDF and print/view it. In PS you typically have to process everything up to the page you are interested in so that, for example, any embedded fonts have been seen and stored.
Will someone PLEASE crack into/. and add more interesting and useful Moderation choices like this one!?...and I second the motion of the guy who wants to moderate.sigs
I post a little comment, go play 18 holes and come back to this? Fascinating!:)
Seems like the discussion clarified quite a bit here. More so than I would have been able to. I wasn't guessing when I wrote that. Just regurgitating something I read long ago. When, what, where I have no idea. Probably some Bose whitepaper/propaganda I read in my previous job in a audio/video store (God, was that really 15 years ago?).
Your head is constantly moving. Even a tiny little bit. Your ears and brain are very sensitive to this and can easily tell whether sounds are in front of you or behind you. This is why surround sound is better than stereo and why normally headphones are not as good (the sounds always move with your head).
How they simulate this with 2 speakers would probably entail simulating these movements with the sound itself, but I'm not sure.
The reason you cannot usually tell the direction that Bass comes from (and why the location of your subwoofer is not important) is that the sound wave is bigger than your head and hits both ears more or less at the same time. You need your head as a baffle to separate sounds a bit so you can at least tell left from right. Sounds from one side have to reflect off of something else and hit the opposite ear a little later. Add the small head movements and you get front/back differentaition.
There's a lot of shit being posted in this story...aaand apparently I'm posting some of it. Got my definition of theorem confused with theory. Someone posted below a better/correct one. Theorems can be either proven or unproven. Laws are stipulated to be true and don't need to be proven.
That's just it. If it is a Theorem is either is unprovable (but still quite possibly true) or just unproven so far. There are good theorems and bad ones. The good ones are either true or close enough to true that they are at least truly useful. One big example is the totality of Quantum Physics. Very useful, but most physicists would not bet you that it will ever be proved as some final Law of Physics.
Laws are Theorems that have been proven true. Not just be experimentation, but by rigorous proof (Logical or Mathematic). If Fermat's last Theorem has been proven then it should be called Fermat's last Law.
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MONTY_PYTHON_GUY_USING_WOMAN'S_VOICE "Burma!"
N "I panicked."
OTHER_MONTY_PYTHON_GUY_USING_WOMAN'S_VOICE "Why'd you say Burma?"
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I thought it said:
"Apple Marketing Hype Powers New Macs."
That is more believeable than the G5 actually appearing.
They'll rename PNG to GIF Hi-Quality to avoid confusion.
OK, it's yesterday's joke.
Coexists with != Backwards Compatible. Look further in the article and you can see a reference board design with Only PCI-X connectors. No PCI at all.
One silly little caffiene deficiency induced typo and the Great Alan Partridge pounces on it!
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Get a job.
P.S. Nice to see you at least changed your
Well, either...
That's the only safe way to run it.
or
Yeah, that's what I meant.
P.S. I've seen some Longhorn demos using WinFS and I'm more interested in that then anything I've seen in XP.
I'm not so sure about the choice thing. I think they're building a lot of new functionality into using WinFS and you'd lose all that if you didn't use it. Sorta like running XP in 2K mode.
"To do is to be" - Socrates.
"To be is to do" - Plato.
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra.
"Please pass the doobie" - Darl McBride.
Danger is it's middle name.
Well sure. I don't mean that. They were talking about shells. I mean ssh, bash, tcsh as well as grep, sed, awk, ...
...You could be a redneck.
(Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy) (??)
Plagiarism! SCO is gonna sue both their asses.
Cygwin people. Cygwin. Makes windows tolerable when you are forced to use it at work.
Hey, another geek who likes golf. That makes 2 by my count.
I always thought it was SNOTTY-nosed. But maybe the others only make sense to the British.
It prints one page, then as you stand there and look at it, more and more pixels appear (and disappear) over time. It is Really quite Fantastic!
Actually that is
... it depends on the printer.
lpr -Shostname (or address) -Pport file
Typically port is something like lp, PORT1, ANY, TEXT, Print,
Also, How lpr works on a printer has nothing to do with the language it prints with.
Not true. You can use the back channel on most PS printers to output the data in text form. (typically with a serial port, AppleTalk, or Port 9100) You can also create a file if the printer has a HDD and upload it later. If that prof had saved incremental data on the printers HDD (assuming it had one) he could have recovered from the power-cycle and picked up where he left off :)
PS Can be made very device independant, but in practice people (and driver) tend to put in all sorts of device dependent things. PDF has the commands that let you do this removed (e.g. setpagedevice). I always thought it was more important that PDF was Page Independent - you can extract a page from any point in the PDF and print/view it. In PS you typically have to process everything up to the page you are interested in so that, for example, any embedded fonts have been seen and stored.
WRONG! PS has an explicit showpage operator. Nothing can hang off on the next page unless you program it that way. This is not PCL!
Will someone PLEASE crack into /. and add more interesting and useful Moderation choices like this one!? ...and I second the motion of the guy who wants to moderate .sigs
I post a little comment, go play 18 holes and come back to this? Fascinating! :)
Seems like the discussion clarified quite a bit here. More so than I would have been able to. I wasn't guessing when I wrote that. Just regurgitating something I read long ago. When, what, where I have no idea. Probably some Bose whitepaper/propaganda I read in my previous job in a audio/video store (God, was that really 15 years ago?).
Gee Wally, this Slashdot thing is pretty neat.
Your head is constantly moving. Even a tiny little bit. Your ears and brain are very sensitive to this and can easily tell whether sounds are in front of you or behind you. This is why surround sound is better than stereo and why normally headphones are not as good (the sounds always move with your head).
How they simulate this with 2 speakers would probably entail simulating these movements with the sound itself, but I'm not sure.
The reason you cannot usually tell the direction that Bass comes from (and why the location of your subwoofer is not important) is that the sound wave is bigger than your head and hits both ears more or less at the same time. You need your head as a baffle to separate sounds a bit so you can at least tell left from right. Sounds from one side have to reflect off of something else and hit the opposite ear a little later. Add the small head movements and you get front/back differentaition.
There's a lot of shit being posted in this story ...aaand apparently I'm posting some of it. Got my definition of theorem confused with theory. Someone posted below a better/correct one. Theorems can be either proven or unproven. Laws are stipulated to be true and don't need to be proven.
That's just it. If it is a Theorem is either is unprovable (but still quite possibly true) or just unproven so far. There are good theorems and bad ones. The good ones are either true or close enough to true that they are at least truly useful. One big example is the totality of Quantum Physics. Very useful, but most physicists would not bet you that it will ever be proved as some final Law of Physics.
Laws are Theorems that have been proven true. Not just be experimentation, but by rigorous proof (Logical or Mathematic). If Fermat's last Theorem has been proven then it should be called Fermat's last Law.
There's a lot of shit being posted in this story.