Ouch! I'd be worried about the stress on the neck too. I once tried tuning my guitar to Robert Fripp's "new standard tuning" i.e. in 5ths with the bottom string tuned down to a C. All I managed to achieve was to ruin a previously nice set of strings, waste 30 minutes and £6.
Well, in my case, she really fancied the rythm guitarist, but he was spoken for. The drummer was a "session." The "singer" couldn't and was a soap dodger (once boasted of going 5 weeks without a shower and 3 without deodorant) and the lead guitarist had a mullet and whacky shorts.
The guitar and bass guitar are tuned in 4ths. The exception is the B string on the guitar which is a major 3rd above the G string below it.
The violin, viola and cello are tuned in 5ths. The odd one out is the double bass which is a member of the viol family (a relic from 300 years ago) and is tuned the same as the bass guitar.
Funny that. Before I got a bass I played violin. I played resonably well, and was promoted to leader of an orchestra (intermediate level) and leader of the 2nd violins of the senior symphony orchestra. However, my "work first, play never" parents insisted I get a job putting out potatoes in the local supermarket.
After a while I tried to take up 6-string guitar, but life got in the way. A few years back, I tried again, but last summer at Download I saw old Dave Mustaine for the umpteenth time, and Slayer, and decided it had to be done. I got a nice V 6-string for Christmas. Yes, it's a Jackson but I've always wanted one and after 18 years I got one.
By the way, the lady I inspired by playing the bass was the lady who shared the front desk with me in the intermediate orchestra. She was a far better musician...
I have a socket AM2 motherboard (ASUS M2N-SLi Deluxe) which supports quad core Phenoms with a BIOS upgrade. I initially had a socket AM2 single-core Athlon 64 in it.
The different sockets are to do with memory width (Socket 754 is single channel). Socket 939 (and 940 for the Opterons) are dual channel DDR. Socket AM2 is dual channel DDR2.
My points were that AMD has had the equivalent of QuickPath (i.e. NUMA with on-chip memory controller) since 2003. I have also been served well by a socket AM2 motherboard which has taken me all the way from single-core 64-bit to 4-core 64-bit.
I for one welcome the death of FSB and all that, but yet again it means a new motherboard, a new CPU socket and all that
I did that a couple of years back. I've gone from a single core Athlon 64 at 2.0GHz to a dual core at 2.6GHz and I'll be going quad core in a month or two, all with the same motherboard and RAM (and everything else). OK I might buy some faster RAM, but in theory I could still use the old stuff.
Hypertransport came out in 2003. It's 2008 and intel has only just got its competitor out.
If intel has got the hyperthreading right though (SMT, like Sun Niagara this time, not Pentium IV) that will be quite a performance advantage since it will help to hide memory latency.
The reason is, that even in 2008, most "Linux" people (or BSD, Solaris, Mac) dual boot into Windows just to they can use the few important (to them) things that don't quite work.
So there is no real imperative for things to change. Progress has been slow, and will continue to be so.
Patents are a big, silly childish game for those very reasons. Play along, even though it goes against your principals. As you imply in your post, your patents probably all have prior art, or may be "obvious," in which case they will be invalid.
I'm in the UK, but a lawyer once told me privately just to ignore software patents and get on with it. At work, play the game. Business is crazy and usually corrupt. That's life.
I buy it on CD so that I have a physical copy without lossy compression separate from my computers. Then, I rip using cdparanoia and encode with flac for listening to from my PC and LAME for listening to on my PDA.
Now, don't get me started on the dynamic range compression that's ruined some recent albums...
This is yet another example of Microsoft's heroic efforts to push the envelope of software and hardware design. After all, without the great demands that Windows, the most advanced OS on the planet and pinnacle of Human technological achievement, places on hardware, we'd all still be using Sinclair Spectrums. Or worse, the Apple Mac.
I'm willing to bet that one day we will dig up fossils on Mars. The only problem is that no one wants to go there and no one cares. If I were a ruthless billionaire I'd be financing a sample return mission (probably personned).
Alas, I have no money, I'm a looney and the doctor gives me pills, so I will probably have to be content with watching the Human Race exterminate itself due to medieval religious superstition coupled with racial intolerance.
In various science-fiction novels, such as Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars , old booster rockets are put up into orbit and linked to form space stations instead of just being throw away. Why has NASA never realized that idea? We'd have all the infrastructure in orbit we wanted, and for a very low cost.
Well, they did make a start. It was called Skylab.
My point is that these people are incompetent and shouldn't be charging money for their "services." My next point is that is should be trivial for those who are basically competent to make a good living in such an environment.
Web development is such a dead-end job. Most web sites are by kids, imbeciles and graphic designers who fancy themselves as coders. Trying to maintain or develop their code is soul-destroying.
The next time you try to use a small business web site to buy something, do yourself a favour and look at the page source.
If your details aren't being sent out over the intartubes unecrypted, and if you still want to make the "purchase" you might see a way to pay nothing, or bare minimum with a discount.
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Interesting. It's a shame Total Guitar neglected to mention that.
Ouch! I'd be worried about the stress on the neck too. I once tried tuning my guitar to Robert Fripp's "new standard tuning" i.e. in 5ths with the bottom string tuned down to a C. All I managed to achieve was to ruin a previously nice set of strings, waste 30 minutes and £6.
Well, in my case, she really fancied the rythm guitarist, but he was spoken for. The drummer was a "session." The "singer" couldn't and was a soap dodger (once boasted of going 5 weeks without a shower and 3 without deodorant) and the lead guitarist had a mullet and whacky shorts.
The guitar and bass guitar are tuned in 4ths. The exception is the B string on the guitar which is a major 3rd above the G string below it.
The violin, viola and cello are tuned in 5ths. The odd one out is the double bass which is a member of the viol family (a relic from 300 years ago) and is tuned the same as the bass guitar.
The last time I played a Jackson (and an Ibanez) in a guitar shop, I played an eightsome reel. (Well, at least I tried.)
Funny that. Before I got a bass I played violin. I played resonably well, and was promoted to leader of an orchestra (intermediate level) and leader of the 2nd violins of the senior symphony orchestra. However, my "work first, play never" parents insisted I get a job putting out potatoes in the local supermarket.
After a while I tried to take up 6-string guitar, but life got in the way. A few years back, I tried again, but last summer at Download I saw old Dave Mustaine for the umpteenth time, and Slayer, and decided it had to be done. I got a nice V 6-string for Christmas. Yes, it's a Jackson but I've always wanted one and after 18 years I got one.
By the way, the lady I inspired by playing the bass was the lady who shared the front desk with me in the intermediate orchestra. She was a far better musician...
Vista 64 is only free if your time has no value.
When I were a lad I had a Spectrum 128. Starglider used to take the best part of 15 minutes to load from tape.
Sarcasm aside, it works. Trust me. When I was 16 I put my computers aside and bought a bass guitar.
Try again.
They all have "HyperTransport."
I have a socket AM2 motherboard (ASUS M2N-SLi Deluxe) which supports quad core Phenoms with a BIOS upgrade. I initially had a socket AM2 single-core Athlon 64 in it.
The different sockets are to do with memory width (Socket 754 is single channel). Socket 939 (and 940 for the Opterons) are dual channel DDR. Socket AM2 is dual channel DDR2.
My points were that AMD has had the equivalent of QuickPath (i.e. NUMA with on-chip memory controller) since 2003. I have also been served well by a socket AM2 motherboard which has taken me all the way from single-core 64-bit to 4-core 64-bit.
Can any intel motherboards do this?
I for one welcome the death of FSB and all that, but yet again it means a new motherboard, a new CPU socket and all that
I did that a couple of years back. I've gone from a single core Athlon 64 at 2.0GHz to a dual core at 2.6GHz and I'll be going quad core in a month or two, all with the same motherboard and RAM (and everything else). OK I might buy some faster RAM, but in theory I could still use the old stuff.
Hypertransport came out in 2003. It's 2008 and intel has only just got its competitor out.
If intel has got the hyperthreading right though (SMT, like Sun Niagara this time, not Pentium IV) that will be quite a performance advantage since it will help to hide memory latency.
The reason is, that even in 2008, most "Linux" people (or BSD, Solaris, Mac) dual boot into Windows just to they can use the few important (to them) things that don't quite work.
So there is no real imperative for things to change. Progress has been slow, and will continue to be so.
Patents are a big, silly childish game for those very reasons. Play along, even though it goes against your principals. As you imply in your post, your patents probably all have prior art, or may be "obvious," in which case they will be invalid.
I'm in the UK, but a lawyer once told me privately just to ignore software patents and get on with it. At work, play the game. Business is crazy and usually corrupt. That's life.
Usually, they're just for looks. Like Paris Hilton.
There's another Paris Hilton?
You have used two inches of Sellotape. Bless you, my child!
So do I.
I buy it on CD so that I have a physical copy without lossy compression separate from my computers. Then, I rip using cdparanoia and encode with flac for listening to from my PC and LAME for listening to on my PDA.
Now, don't get me started on the dynamic range compression that's ruined some recent albums...
Mouse infestation? They're Clangers!
OK, I'll bite...
This is yet another example of Microsoft's heroic efforts to push the envelope of software and hardware design. After all, without the great demands that Windows, the most advanced OS on the planet and pinnacle of Human technological achievement, places on hardware, we'd all still be using Sinclair Spectrums. Or worse, the Apple Mac.
I refute your refutation. Where is the blue string pudding?
I'm willing to bet that one day we will dig up fossils on Mars. The only problem is that no one wants to go there and no one cares. If I were a ruthless billionaire I'd be financing a sample return mission (probably personned).
Alas, I have no money, I'm a looney and the doctor gives me pills, so I will probably have to be content with watching the Human Race exterminate itself due to medieval religious superstition coupled with racial intolerance.
Instead of wondering what to label things, how about getting some drivers for linux so that it will work with my printer for example ?
Surely this is a CUPS problem, not a Linux problem?
In various science-fiction novels, such as Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars , old booster rockets are put up into orbit and linked to form space stations instead of just being throw away. Why has NASA never realized that idea? We'd have all the infrastructure in orbit we wanted, and for a very low cost.
Well, they did make a start. It was called Skylab.
My point is that these people are incompetent and shouldn't be charging money for their "services." My next point is that is should be trivial for those who are basically competent to make a good living in such an environment.
Web development is such a dead-end job. Most web sites are by kids, imbeciles and graphic designers who fancy themselves as coders. Trying to maintain or develop their code is soul-destroying.
The next time you try to use a small business web site to buy something, do yourself a favour and look at the page source.
If your details aren't being sent out over the intartubes unecrypted, and if you still want to make the "purchase" you might see a way to pay nothing, or bare minimum with a discount.
Scotland is a good place to start looking.
That's the dullest Slashdot comment I've ever read.
I say, I say, I say,... My dog's nose is a comedian!
Why's that?
He smells funny!