According to the Computer Power User magazine, Intel demonstrated a P4 4.1 GHz at the Intel Developer Forum. They even showed it overclocked to 4.65GHz with extensive cooling.
I expect it will still take a year or two before they become generally available.
The problem described by the author of the thread is not easy to overcome.
The main problem, as many other posters have mentioned, is the cost related to distributing music over the net outside the traditional P2P type. Why?
- Bandwidth costs money. Even by todays standards, with only a few hundred thousand people using P2P, the cost would be astronomical. Not to mention if this turned into a main-stream thing.
- Royalties. Don't just laugh of it. The work of an artist is IP, like it or not. Besides, the creative minds need food too. Who is going to pay>
- Quality. No, I don't mean quality of the files, the technologial quality, but the recording quality. If it is free, who is going to pay for the studio time and the editing necessary. And no, you can't do it yourself unless you are a professional. It is difficukt and requires quite a bit of musical understanding and feeling and takes a LOT of time.
- Marketing. Who is going to pay for marketing, world wide exposure? If you want to get Joe Listener interested, you need marketing.
Bottom line, no matter what YOU think, it's all about money. The sooner you realize that, the better.
You can try to take on the recording industry, but it ain't going nowhere soon. No matter how 1337 on-line music sounds, it will not be reality for many years to come besides the feeble P2P sharing that already exists.
I never watch anime, personally I think it is... kind of stupid... but hey that's me!
What is surprising though is that some of you are almost drooling about late night anime, I guess it is the X-rated kind, is it? Don't tell me that you geeks are jerking off to a cartoon? My God! What is the world coming to?
My company (which sells a commercial product to run under Linux) have produced several enhancements to the kernel and have been able to get some of them into the Linus' Tree, some were not accepted, but is now incorporated into a well known Linux Distribution.
It all boils down to what I would call the Mitnik Factor (Tm). Namely how good your social skill is, i.e. how good you are to convince Linux in a PROFESSIONAL way that the patch you have made actually will add a value to the general kernel release and that the whole community will be better off with the patch in Linus' Tree rather than outside of it. (Now that is ofcourse the hard part)
Joe User BUYS a package with RedHat 8.0 form a computer store. They expect that if they have a problem with a program, RedHat is the correct address for the bug-report. They don't care who wrote the program, to them it is RedHat
So as you can see, the problem is a little bit more than just blac and white. Most of the posters here think geek and tell you to even submit a patch or a testcase. Joe User doesn't know what a patch or a testcase is.
In my opinion, the distribution should have a report/search client (webpage?) where Joe User can submit a report like "Uhmm.. Prog X doesn't start when I click on the icon." And don't laugh, this is hte type of problems Joe USer faces and they have no clue how to figure out what is the problem.
Remember! Linux is starting to hit a usergroup that has very little knwoledge about OS, programming, debugging etc. This is where the support program from the Vendor should take care of their issue.
I can't wait until the plastic surgeons gets their hands on this.
Think about the possibilities:
1. You approach a fine specimen of the femal gender
2. She doesn't like you and her boobs starts flashing RED (Time to get out of Dodge)
3. Or she likes you and green is all you see!
I guess that will make a geeks life easier or...?
Re:Redhat makes adding fonts even easier
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Font HOWTO For Linux
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· Score: 3, Informative
No problem.
Find your unix.js file under the mozilla directory, then make sure your TrueType Section looks like this:
// TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6"); // if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in // it is best to leave hinting off
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true); // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
pref("font.antialias.min", 6);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.1"); // sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF");
pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype");
Just remember to change the path to your TT font directories.
I thought Microsoft had a large interest in Apple, interest as in stocks? Didn't they basically save Apple's ass a couple of years ago?
Then it doesn't matter what they buy, does it? Now, if they had tried to buy Walmart PC's with Lindows, I bet the foundation would have cried Foul Play!
What? They're not PAYING me to burn their tracks?
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Burn A Song For 99 Cents
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I give up!!!
You kids are killing me. For ages you have been complaining about not beeing able to do this or not beeing able to do that. Finally when the industry puts out a model where you can actually buy the music YOU like, for a given price (we can ofcourse discuss if it should be 99 cents or 90 cents or 80...), you all start screaming "Bloody Murder!"
What will the industry have to do to satisfy you whiners? Pay you to download and burn a track to CD?
I'm getting sick and tired of your downright stupid comments. Give the industry a chance, give them feed-back. Say that 99 cents is too much, but don't expect them to give away the music for free. They are not in the P2P busines, but in the music business to MAKE money, not for charity.
If you can't afford to buy music by paying 99 cents a track, get an education, then get a job that pays you enough to download the music. Personally, I have no problems paying the charge,
$20 is less than what I make an hour after taxes and other deductions.
Get a life, get a jobe! Pay for the stuff you enjoy, don't steal!
The question is not if NASA can keep a budget, but rather if the politican will accept it if NASA gave them an acurate budget.
As it is now, I put my $.02 on the idea that NASA is under-budgeting in order to gte the crooks^H^H^H^H^H^Hpoliticans to accept the project.
Nobody is going to tell me that NASA is not smart enough to put out a price that looks good, get the funding and then slowly, but steadily increase the cost.
And what do you think would have happened if a newspaper here in the US said "The [fill in your own race here] are the most stupid race currently living"? Do you really think that such a remark would have been tolerated?
I think that if you had people from all over the world rank US, their position would have been further down on the list.
I'm not sure how many of the newspapers from the countries above US on the list you have read, but I'm fairly sure that it is close to ZERO.
If you really want to make a valid point, at least try to have some experience in the field, not just feel insulted because your country (US in this case) didn't score as well as YOU would have liked.
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You are right of course, my bad!
So many years since I really read TinTin.
I apologize if I inadvertantly offended people from Belgia, it was not my intention.
TinTin is a french cartoon that has been published for years. I remember reading it as a kid back in the 60's. It's even older than that and it shows.
I have seen a few TinTin movies later and I just can't deal with it. There is something un-funny about the whole thing.
Let's just hope that Spielberg can breath some new air into the old cartoon.
First of all, stay away from MS products.. Check!
Second, don't visit unknown links... Check!
Third, Disable pop-ups, block what can be blocked in the browser. Check!
Fourth, upgrade your OS with the latest patches and fixes, (Gentoo here, emerge -u world)... Check!
Fifth, implement a nazi firewall... Check!
Looks good so far, have never had an attack or lost data due to a security hole. I can sleep in peace.
According to the Computer Power User magazine, Intel demonstrated a P4 4.1 GHz at the Intel Developer Forum. They even showed it overclocked to 4.65GHz with extensive cooling.
I expect it will still take a year or two before they become generally available.
I have read several articles here why people prefer to use because Oracle is so expensive.
Unless you are planning to use it in a commercial setting, Oracle is free as in beer!
The latest version of Oracle for Linux can be downloaded from here
The problem described by the author of the thread is not easy to overcome.
The main problem, as many other posters have mentioned, is the cost related to distributing music over the net outside the traditional P2P type. Why?
- Bandwidth costs money. Even by todays standards, with only a few hundred thousand people using P2P, the cost would be astronomical. Not to mention if this turned into a main-stream thing.
- Royalties. Don't just laugh of it. The work of an artist is IP, like it or not. Besides, the creative minds need food too. Who is going to pay>
- Quality. No, I don't mean quality of the files, the technologial quality, but the recording quality. If it is free, who is going to pay for the studio time and the editing necessary. And no, you can't do it yourself unless you are a professional. It is difficukt and requires quite a bit of musical understanding and feeling and takes a LOT of time.
- Marketing. Who is going to pay for marketing, world wide exposure? If you want to get Joe Listener interested, you need marketing.
Bottom line, no matter what YOU think, it's all about money. The sooner you realize that, the better.
You can try to take on the recording industry, but it ain't going nowhere soon. No matter how 1337 on-line music sounds, it will not be reality for many years to come besides the feeble P2P sharing that already exists.
I never watch anime, personally I think it is ... kind of stupid... but hey that's me!
What is surprising though is that some of you are almost drooling about late night anime, I guess it is the X-rated kind, is it? Don't tell me that you geeks are jerking off to a cartoon? My God! What is the world coming to?
I have to say I agree with The Man.
My company (which sells a commercial product to run under Linux) have produced several enhancements to the kernel and have been able to get some of them into the Linus' Tree, some were not accepted, but is now incorporated into a well known Linux Distribution.
It all boils down to what I would call the Mitnik Factor (Tm). Namely how good your social skill is, i.e. how good you are to convince Linux in a PROFESSIONAL way that the patch you have made actually will add a value to the general kernel release and that the whole community will be better off with the patch in Linus' Tree rather than outside of it. (Now that is ofcourse the hard part)
I guess he was to stupid to understand the odds on normal betting, so what do you expect?
Not that easy man...
Joe User BUYS a package with RedHat 8.0 form a computer store. They expect that if they have a problem with a program, RedHat is the correct address for the bug-report. They don't care who wrote the program, to them it is RedHat
So as you can see, the problem is a little bit more than just blac and white. Most of the posters here think geek and tell you to even submit a patch or a testcase. Joe User doesn't know what a patch or a testcase is.
In my opinion, the distribution should have a report/search client (webpage?) where Joe User can submit a report like "Uhmm.. Prog X doesn't start when I click on the icon." And don't laugh, this is hte type of problems Joe USer faces and they have no clue how to figure out what is the problem.
Remember! Linux is starting to hit a usergroup that has very little knwoledge about OS, programming, debugging etc. This is where the support program from the Vendor should take care of their issue.
I consider anything from Taco Bell antimatter. Try to eat it and you will be anti Taco Bell no matter how hard you try!
I'm using Gentoo Linux with KDE 3.1Beta2 and Phoenix browser.
You can take a look at the hinted version and the unhinted version and tell me what you think.
I just can't help it!
:)
The new site gave me a total of 32 moderator points today!!!!
I sure hope this is a new trend
That is actually not true.
:)
I have done tests with both and using:
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true);
gives the best result. I even have screenshots to prove
I can't wait until the plastic surgeons gets their hands on this.
...?
Think about the possibilities:
1. You approach a fine specimen of the femal gender
2. She doesn't like you and her boobs starts flashing RED (Time to get out of Dodge)
3. Or she likes you and green is all you see!
I guess that will make a geeks life easier or
No problem.
// TrueType
// if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
// it is best to leave hinting off
// below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
// sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
Find your unix.js file under the mozilla directory, then make sure your TrueType Section looks like this:
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true);
pref("font.antialias.min", 6);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.1");
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF");
pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype");
Just remember to change the path to your TT font directories.
Just a short note on the GF and iBook debacle.
I thought Microsoft had a large interest in Apple, interest as in stocks? Didn't they basically save Apple's ass a couple of years ago?
Then it doesn't matter what they buy, does it? Now, if they had tried to buy Walmart PC's with Lindows, I bet the foundation would have cried Foul Play!
I give up!!!
You kids are killing me. For ages you have been complaining about not beeing able to do this or not beeing able to do that. Finally when the industry puts out a model where you can actually buy the music YOU like, for a given price (we can ofcourse discuss if it should be 99 cents or 90 cents or 80...), you all start screaming "Bloody Murder!"
What will the industry have to do to satisfy you whiners? Pay you to download and burn a track to CD?
I'm getting sick and tired of your downright stupid comments. Give the industry a chance, give them feed-back. Say that 99 cents is too much, but don't expect them to give away the music for free. They are not in the P2P busines, but in the music business to MAKE money, not for charity.
If you can't afford to buy music by paying 99 cents a track, get an education, then get a job that pays you enough to download the music. Personally, I have no problems paying the charge, $20 is less than what I make an hour after taxes and other deductions.
Get a life, get a jobe! Pay for the stuff you enjoy, don't steal!
The question is not if NASA can keep a budget, but rather if the politican will accept it if NASA gave them an acurate budget.
As it is now, I put my $.02 on the idea that NASA is under-budgeting in order to gte the crooks^H^H^H^H^H^Hpoliticans to accept the project.
Nobody is going to tell me that NASA is not smart enough to put out a price that looks good, get the funding and then slowly, but steadily increase the cost.
How much for a trip to this baby?
And where can I pre-order a ticket?
Ah, yes, where you actually PAY a lot more and then have to mail in a coupon to get a refund mailed to you after X weeks.
Show me a place where I can go in a dump a $5 on the counter and carry out a decent 50-pack.
Where do you get a 50-pack of quality CD-R's for $5.00?
Last time I bought a 50-pack, I paid about $18.
If so, please check the following link: http://web.amnesty.org/web/icc_petition.nsf/action _english
And what do you think would have happened if a newspaper here in the US said "The [fill in your own race here] are the most stupid race currently living"? Do you really think that such a remark would have been tolerated?
I think that if you had people from all over the world rank US, their position would have been further down on the list.
I'm not sure how many of the newspapers from the countries above US on the list you have read, but I'm fairly sure that it is close to ZERO.
If you really want to make a valid point, at least try to have some experience in the field, not just feel insulted because your country (US in this case) didn't score as well as YOU would have liked.