Except there is a lot of water in the world around the freezing point, and that is where water is densest. My point is, ice and warm water are both less dense than water close to the freezing point. This should serve to balance things out quite a bit as melted ice is SMALLER than the original ice, and warming water is slightly LARGER than cooler water. Did that make sense?
You bring up a good point, 5.1 audio WAS designed for film in theatres years ago, not music. Hell most of the soundtrack comes from the front stereo channels anyhow during a movie.
Well, then we should assume that most speciations happen around the time of a polar shift then shouldn't we? This is not the case. It is actually really easy to check for this, so I can say it with great certainty. When a lava flow covers up fossils, the lava is polarized in the direction of the current magnetic field, so in SE africa for instance where there is lots of lava, we have a really good idea of what lived when. There appears to be no correlation.
Actually the.1 isn't even intended to necessarily be sent to a separate speaker by the proponents of 5.1 (ie DTS, Dolby). They simply intended the.1 channel to be a discrete encoding of the bass audio with which you could do as you please. I still disagree with you though, sending the bass to a speaker designed for it will improve bass response and improve the audio quality IF PROPERLY TUNED. I am not refering to the thumping bass syndrom so endemic in our hip-hop listening population.
Actually as areal density increases so does read (but not seek) speed. This is because by packing more bits into one concentric ring, one spin of the drive reads more data even at the same speed (7200rpm usually for a good IDE drive). If you look at the performance of IDE drives they have been increasing steadily for years despite staying at 7200. This is why they keep having to bump the DMA mode, UDMA/33 was fast enough a few years ago on a 7200rpm'er, but slows down modern drives.
agreed, same thing here. my 3rd 75gxp is sitting in the closet now collecting dust while i write this with my new WD. I even asked them to send me an older slower model instead and they refused. There is no way I am putting important data on this one.
In that sense of viral i agree with you, but when MS calls the GPL a viral license that is not what they mean. What they mean is, by using GPL software (infected?) and building off it you are required to GPL the changes as well. So you pick it up and then are contagious as such. You are right though, copyright is worse because it infects everyone. I would call GPL viral and copyright an "endemic disease".
I actually agree with you, and like I said I like Pink Floyd. However I would suspect that many of the early punkers would not. I have certainly read a lot of anti-floyd punk backlash.
Oh, and it may be a bit of a guilty pleasure but I rather enjoyed Division Bell. Certainly wasn't a confontational album but it was hardly mainstream 1993 either. MLoR bit the big one however.
With all due respect, Andy Warhol's impact on the VU consisted of painting a banana for the cover of their first album, insisting that Nico sing on it, and buying them food. He was more of a patron and sponsor than a producer at all, and infact their band was already a very tight unit before he "picked them up".
Now I personally like Pink Floyd, but I find it ironic that since punk was an attack on "corporate rock" and all its pomposity, and in many cases an attack on PF in particular, that you quote them in your sig:)
Whatever man, tell me you like Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and then we can talk.
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I use it because its free, postgres isn't quite as well integrated with php, and i dont need the extra features of a more complete SQL engine for what I do anyhow (no transacts for example). Plus the documentation for MySQL is great, because there are so many users.
PEAR-db is a database abstraction layer for php. i choose not to use it (just use the mysql functions for speed) but its there, included by default, and pretty easy to use too.
Though I'm not one to usually nitpick, man these 3.1/3.11 jokes are old and unfunny. Every time a goddamn program hits version 3 I get a shudder knowing that I'll soon be flooded by these witty remarks. Argh, pretty soon Glibc will be there too. *shudder*. Best reason I can think of for Linux to remain at 2.6.
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It just occured to me while typing my last response that you probably have refresh rate and framerate confused. Refresh rate is how fast the monitor draws images, while framerate is how fast an image gets rendered by the video subsystem. Normally your system renders frames as fast as possible then outputs them to the RAMDAC which draws them on the screen at 60,70,85hz depending on your settings. Framerate can stutter if they system is bogged down, refresh rate is fixed to your current resolution.
First of all, 60hz on a CRT is playable but I can see the flicker and it gives me a headache. Second of all, LCDs don't flicker at all because the pixels don't depolarize fast enough - the screen is a solid image at 60hz. There is motion blur though because of this, if you pan quickly you can see the old image ghost over for a few miliseconds. Doesn't bother me anymore but it does some people. Third of all I don't see many video card manufacturers actually pimping refresh rates anymore because the monitor is always the limitting factor now that cards come with 300MHz+ RAMDACs.
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This is true, however my NEC LCD 1850E looks perfectly acceptible even in games such as Quake3. Yes it blurs a bit, but once you get used to it, its no problem. I would never switch back even for games.
It has been revamped for version 1.4, but I still argue that gentoo should NOT have a handholding install, it should remain just a step easier than a linux from scratch install. Really, just follow the instructions though on their webpage and its pretty damn simple.
Including post, my athlon 2000+ boots windows xp completely in under 10 seconds, and my celeron 1000 boots my modified linux from scratch distro with web,sql,mail,samba,bind running in under 5.
WHAT THE HELL are you blathering about? I mean that is the WORST stream of gibberish I have ever read. Was that a joke? Please respond I really am deeply curious.
I am talking about the event horizon not the singularity. time is still flowing according to an outside reference frame but space-time is massively bent.
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Except there is a lot of water in the world around the freezing point, and that is where water is densest. My point is, ice and warm water are both less dense than water close to the freezing point. This should serve to balance things out quite a bit as melted ice is SMALLER than the original ice, and warming water is slightly LARGER than cooler water. Did that make sense?
You bring up a good point, 5.1 audio WAS designed for film in theatres years ago, not music. Hell most of the soundtrack comes from the front stereo channels anyhow during a movie.
Well, then we should assume that most speciations happen around the time of a polar shift then shouldn't we? This is not the case. It is actually really easy to check for this, so I can say it with great certainty. When a lava flow covers up fossils, the lava is polarized in the direction of the current magnetic field, so in SE africa for instance where there is lots of lava, we have a really good idea of what lived when. There appears to be no correlation.
Actually the .1 isn't even intended to necessarily be sent to a separate speaker by the proponents of 5.1 (ie DTS, Dolby). They simply intended the .1 channel to be a discrete encoding of the bass audio with which you could do as you please. I still disagree with you though, sending the bass to a speaker designed for it will improve bass response and improve the audio quality IF PROPERLY TUNED. I am not refering to the thumping bass syndrom so endemic in our hip-hop listening population.
Actually as areal density increases so does read (but not seek) speed. This is because by packing more bits into one concentric ring, one spin of the drive reads more data even at the same speed (7200rpm usually for a good IDE drive). If you look at the performance of IDE drives they have been increasing steadily for years despite staying at 7200. This is why they keep having to bump the DMA mode, UDMA/33 was fast enough a few years ago on a 7200rpm'er, but slows down modern drives.
agreed, same thing here. my 3rd 75gxp is sitting in the closet now collecting dust while i write this with my new WD. I even asked them to send me an older slower model instead and they refused. There is no way I am putting important data on this one.
In that sense of viral i agree with you, but when MS calls the GPL a viral license that is not what they mean. What they mean is, by using GPL software (infected?) and building off it you are required to GPL the changes as well. So you pick it up and then are contagious as such. You are right though, copyright is worse because it infects everyone. I would call GPL viral and copyright an "endemic disease".
Let me guess, you have used this argument before to rationalize software piracy right? Some people sure spend alot of time deluding themselves.
I actually agree with you, and like I said I like Pink Floyd. However I would suspect that many of the early punkers would not. I have certainly read a lot of anti-floyd punk backlash.
Oh, and it may be a bit of a guilty pleasure but I rather enjoyed Division Bell. Certainly wasn't a confontational album but it was hardly mainstream 1993 either. MLoR bit the big one however.
With all due respect, Andy Warhol's impact on the VU consisted of painting a banana for the cover of their first album, insisting that Nico sing on it, and buying them food. He was more of a patron and sponsor than a producer at all, and infact their band was already a very tight unit before he "picked them up".
Now I personally like Pink Floyd, but I find it ironic that since punk was an attack on "corporate rock" and all its pomposity, and in many cases an attack on PF in particular, that you quote them in your sig :)
Lou Reed, the archtype, the proto-punk himself, was from Manhattan, as was his band the Velvet Underground.
Whatever man, tell me you like Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and then we can talk.
I use it because its free, postgres isn't quite as well integrated with php, and i dont need the extra features of a more complete SQL engine for what I do anyhow (no transacts for example). Plus the documentation for MySQL is great, because there are so many users.
PEAR-db is a database abstraction layer for php. i choose not to use it (just use the mysql functions for speed) but its there, included by default, and pretty easy to use too.
Though I'm not one to usually nitpick, man these 3.1/3.11 jokes are old and unfunny. Every time a goddamn program hits version 3 I get a shudder knowing that I'll soon be flooded by these witty remarks. Argh, pretty soon Glibc will be there too. *shudder*. Best reason I can think of for Linux to remain at 2.6.
It just occured to me while typing my last response that you probably have refresh rate and framerate confused. Refresh rate is how fast the monitor draws images, while framerate is how fast an image gets rendered by the video subsystem. Normally your system renders frames as fast as possible then outputs them to the RAMDAC which draws them on the screen at 60,70,85hz depending on your settings. Framerate can stutter if they system is bogged down, refresh rate is fixed to your current resolution.
First of all, 60hz on a CRT is playable but I can see the flicker and it gives me a headache. Second of all, LCDs don't flicker at all because the pixels don't depolarize fast enough - the screen is a solid image at 60hz. There is motion blur though because of this, if you pan quickly you can see the old image ghost over for a few miliseconds. Doesn't bother me anymore but it does some people.
Third of all I don't see many video card manufacturers actually pimping refresh rates anymore because the monitor is always the limitting factor now that cards come with 300MHz+ RAMDACs.
This is true, however my NEC LCD 1850E looks perfectly acceptible even in games such as Quake3. Yes it blurs a bit, but once you get used to it, its no problem. I would never switch back even for games.
No GUI on the LFS machine, its a headless server. Thats 5 seconds to the login prompt.
touche :)
It has been revamped for version 1.4, but I still argue that gentoo should NOT have a handholding install, it should remain just a step easier than a linux from scratch install. Really, just follow the instructions though on their webpage and its pretty damn simple.
Including post, my athlon 2000+ boots windows xp completely in under 10 seconds, and my celeron 1000 boots my modified linux from scratch distro with web,sql,mail,samba,bind running in under 5.
WHAT THE HELL are you blathering about? I mean that is the WORST stream of gibberish I have ever read. Was that a joke? Please respond I really am deeply curious.
I am talking about the event horizon not the singularity. time is still flowing according to an outside reference frame but space-time is massively bent.